Lucien Samaha

Lucien Samaha is a Lebanese-American photographer and artist based in New York City.

Life and career
Samaha was born in Beirut and migrated to the US in 1970. He attended Annandale High School and Rochester Institute of Technology. He was a flight attendant with Trans World Airlines from 1978 to 1986. In 1990, he was the recipient of the first Eastman Kodak Company Professional Photography Division Scholarship ever given to a photographer and later joined the Eastman Kodak Company. He was one of the original members of the Arab Image Foundation.

Solo exhibitions

 * 2008: Uneasy About Beirut, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA
 * 2013: The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986, Lombard Freid Projects, New York, USA
 * 2016: The Actor's Shadow, Sibiu City Hall, Romania
 * 2016: The Solitude of Modern Man as Portrayed in Contemporary Cinema, Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania
 * 2019: A History of Digital Photography, Pioneer Works, New York, USA

Group exhibitions

 * 2008: Good is What Pleases, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
 * 2006: Persona-Personae, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA
 * 2006: I Want To Show You Somewhere, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Oregon, USA
 * 2007: The Searchers, EFA Gallery, New York, USA
 * 2018: Beirút, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway