Ammar Abd Rabbo

Ammar Abd Rabbo (عمّار عبد ربّه) is a French-Syrian journalist and photographer, born in Damascus, Syria, in 1966.

Abd Rabbo left Syria in his childhood and has been living in France since 1978.

He has covered photo stories in the Arab world since the 1990s in Iraq, Libya and Lebanon, as well as in his homeland, Syria.

His work has been published in Time, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Bild and various other publications.

From a 25-year career, his portfolio includes portraits of head of states, war coverage in Iraq, Lebanon and Libya, celebrities like Michael Jackson, as well as of events such as the Cannes Film Festival and Paris Fashion Week.

Abd Rabbo has also had solo exhibitions of his press work, as well as works about nudity and the body.

"Coming Soon" in Beirut in 2012 was a series of artistic silhouettes of pregnant women, aiming to "encourage the audience to think differently about pregnancy" as the artist stated on the television channel Al Arabiya.

He is known for his images of Stephen Hawking, as well as the image of Benazir Bhutto that made the cover of Time magazine after she was assassinated.

In August 2015, one of his works was shown at Dismaland, a temporary exhibition curated by anonymous artist Banksy, that took place in Weston-super-Mare near Bristol, England.

In December 2016, he published a book about Aleppo in war time, in French, titled "ALEP A Elles Eux Paix".

He was awarded "Knight of Arts and Letters" by the French government in 2017.

Since 2018, he is a regular contributor of the website "Daraj", where he publishes videos in Arabic raising awareness about fake news and conspiracy theories.