the invisible hand of the market
collage and drawing on LBP
beirut, 2022


Since the explosion in the port of Beirut and the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, the people of Lebanon have been suffering from hyperinflation. This has led to nearly three quarter of the population living below the national poverty line. Fights have broken out in supermarkets as people try to buy bread, sugar, oil and other scarce commodities.






Foto: Nastia Yakovenko and Lukas Preisinger