Timebox Beirut Urban Photo Trail

Timebox Beirut is an urban trail of early 20th century 3D images on the streets of Beirut. Each Timebox holds one stereograph at the location where it was originally taken 100 years ago. Passers-by experience that same street a century back in 3D.

The box is a modern plexiglas stereoscope specially designed to mount on a street pole. It’s comprised of two superposed images that give a three-dimensional effect when viewed through the special lens.

Creating cultural and historical interest on the streets, Timeboxplaces each archival 3D image in its original context to provoke a sense of how Beirut’s urban public space has changed in the past century. The act of walking through the trail of 10 boxes around Beirut or simply stumbling upon a Timebox, aims to reawaken our experience of Beirut’s public spaces and highlight the contrast of how it has changed.

This installation, by Razan AlSalah and Lotfi AlSalah, is produced in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung MENA Office (Beirut).

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