About

Toni Yammine (b. 1981, Lebanon) is a photographer based in Beirut who treats the ordinary with unnecessary seriousness and the serious with quiet doubt. Convinced the world occasionally arranges itself just to see if he’s paying attention, his images turn accidents into structure; what interests him is not beauty or drama, but the moment when reality drops its act, briefly, before realizing it is being watched.

He began photographing as a teenager after discovering his father’s old SLR. By 2009 he had founded the Lebanese Photography Club, and by 2011 co-founded Nikon School Lebanon, teaching thousands of photographers before deciding his own work needed more of his attention.

His current work is rooted in Beirut, a city that resists fixed readings and shifts with attention. He is drawn to the spaces where systems become visible, where what sustains a place is more interesting than what it presents. Recent projects include Transit, an ongoing investigation into migrant presence and prolonged arrival in Beirut, and Luxe Ordinaire, a study of the labor and maintenance systems behind Parisian luxury.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the SE Center for Photography (2026) and in Guest Room at Der Greif (2026), with selections and curations by Michael Pannier, Sarah Lewis, and Jessica Stark. He continues to work from Beirut, where things rarely stay in place long enough to be understood.