Habib Saleh is a Lebanese visual artist working across photography, film, and writing. Rather than approaching these as separate disciplines, he sees them as different ways of following the same inquiry, each capable of expressing what the others cannot.

Working primarily in Lebanon, Saleh photographs the people and places closest to him — family, villages, cities, and the quiet rhythms of everyday life. Guided by natural light, long-term observation, and a sensitivity to the ordinary, his work explores presence, memory, time, and the fragile coexistence of beauty and devastation. Rather than centering extraordinary events, his photographs remain attentive to what continues around them: the gestures, relationships, and atmospheres through which life quietly persists.

Writing moves alongside the images as an equal part of his practice, not as explanation but as another way of approaching what cannot be fully held by a photograph. Together, photography, film, and text form an ongoing body of work that reflects on perception, the limits of language, and the experience of being alive.

To Pray Is to Wander About the Meaning of Life is the continuous body of work gathered here — a living manuscript that keeps unfolding. The printed book will one day emerge from it.