(CNN)Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar uses Instagram to take stills of interesting buildings and make them appear like works of art. Browse through the gallery to see all the images.
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(CNN)Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar uses Instagram to take stills of interesting buildings and make them appear like works of art. Browse through the gallery to see all the images.
The 41-year-old photographer loves his city, and seems to find striking symmetry and whimsical geometry at every turn. The minimalist photos filling his Instagram feel unexpected and sometimes seem to defy gravity. “Beirut is a wonderful place for an architectural freak like me,” he says. “Construction has been booming since the end of civil war and the country has a rich variety of buildings.”
Najjar is an unlikely, almost accidental photographer. He’s been a finance lawyer for 20 years, and never gave photography much thought until 2011, when his mother signed him up for a class taught by a friend. He took to it immediately, and soon found himself photographing almost everything he saw. “Photography made me realize that I didn’t know my country as well as I thought I did—that it was possible for me to look at it with a new eye [and] redefine what I saw through my lens in a subjective way,” he says.