Diego Ibarra Sanchez

Photographer; Educator; Video journalist

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Crisis and Covid in Lebanon

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Location: Beirut, Lebanon

Nationality: Spanish

Biography: www.diegoibarra.com Diego Ibarra Sánchez, 1982, Spain, is a renowned documentary photographer, filmmaker, and educator who is based in Lebanon. His work primarily focuses on in-depth, long-form visual storytelling, and he is known... MORE

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - MARCH 30: Children's drawings to support their father are displayed on the window of the restroom in the intensive care service of Saint Georges Hospital, on March 30, 2021, in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - JANUARY 15: A Lebanese nurse prays inside the corridors of the Intensive Care Unit of Rafik Hariri University Hospital on January 15, 2021, in southern Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - JANUARY 15: Elevator buttons covered by plastic inside The Rafik Hariri University Hospital on January 15, 2021, in southern Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

BEIRUT, LEBANON - JANUARY 15: A Lebanese nurse takes care of a COVID-19 patience inside the Intensive Care Unit of Rafik Hariri University Hospital on January 15, 2021, in southern Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

BEIRUT, LEBANON - JANUARY 15: A Lebanese woman takes care of her mother with COVID-19 inside the Intensive Care Unit of Rafik Hariri University Hospital on January 15, 2021, in southern Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

BEIRUT, LEBANON - JANUARY 15: A COVID-19 patience lyes in a bed inside the Intensive Care Unit of Rafik Hariri University Hospital on January 15, 2021, in southern Beirut, Lebanon. The country has declared a “state of emergency”.Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - JANUARY 13: Young Lebanese citizens load the car with items before the implementation of 24 hours lockdown on January 13, 2021 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - JANUARY 13: Lebanese citizens wait to get inside a supermarket before the implementation of 24 hours lockdown on January 13, 2021 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - MARCH 30: An elderly Lebanese receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at Rafik Hariri University Hospital. on March 30, 2021, in Beirut, Lebanon. The country has recently experienced oxygen shortages amid a rising number of Covid-19 hospitalizations, prompting the government of neighboring Syria to offer emergency oxygen supplies. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - FEBRUARY 11th. Lebanese attend a memorial service of Lokman Slim, on February 13, 2021, in Beirut, Lebanon. Slim was shot six times and found dead in his car in south Lebanon a week ago.(Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

BEIRUT, LEBANON - FEBRUARY 11th. Photographers are seen while they take a picture of Lokman Slim´s picture during a memorial service to pay tribute to him, one week after he was found dead in his car, on February 13, 2021, in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - FEBRUARY 4: A worker rebuilds an affected building in front of the devastated port of Beirut. The cause of the August 4 fire that ignited nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port remains unclear. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - FEBRUARY 4: Victims' families still seeking answers and justice six months later. Lebanese authorities have failed in the past six months to deliver any justice for the catastrophic explosion at Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020, Human Rights Watch said (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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BEIRUT, LEBANON - FEBRUARY 24th. Families and relatives of those arrested and anti-government protesters from Tripoli, Beqaa, and Beirut protest at the streets of Beirut on February 24th, 2021, in Lebanon. Thirty-five protesters were charged with terrorism offences after deadly demonstrations in Tripoli last month. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

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Crisis and Covid in Lebanon

Copyright Diego Ibarra Sánchez 2024

Updated Apr 2021

Topics Documentary, Editorial, Essays, Human Rights, Pandemics, Photography, Photojournalism, Poverty, Protests, Reporting, Revolution

Coronavirus, economic crisis, and an unresolved explosion: The situation in Lebanon is tense and a new lockdown is only making things worse for people already suffering trauma and economic devastation.

The currency crash has pushed more than half the population into poverty. It has also depleted foreign reserves, raising concerns that Lebanon’s central bank will not be able to finance subsidies of some basic commodities, including fuel in the coming weeks. The crisis is posing the gravest threat to Lebanon’s stability since the 1975-90 civil war.

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