Where the Sun Keeps Shining is a photographic meditation on light, presence, and the silent power of the sun.

Across America, Europe and Asia, Rami and Lili Mekdachi capture places not for what they are, but for what they become when touched by sunlight.

Under the sun, the world opens. Colors intensify, shadows stretch and soften, and even the simplest scenes acquire depth and emotion. Light reveals textures, creates contrasts, and offers objects a renewed clarity. There is something hopeful in this illumination, a feeling that everything becomes possible, that space breathes, that time slows just enough to allow us to see.

This book gathers images from different continents without hierarchy or distinction. Geography dissolves. What matters is not the destination, but the shared sensation of being under the same sun. Whether in a city or a landscape, in the West or the East, the emotion remains universal. The sun becomes the true subject, a common force that connects places, beings, and moments.

Where the Sun Keeps Shining does not seek to locate a specific place. It is about recognizing a state of being, a moment when light transforms the ordinary into something luminous. Strength lies not in where we stand, but in what happens when the sun appears, when it reminds us of warmth, openness and life itself, wherever we are in the world, that energy which connects places inspires a shared feeling of clarity and quiet hope.

Rami Mekdachi was born in Beirut and grew up between Paris, England, and North America.

The world of music called him with a guitar, a punk-rock band and the raw joy of making noise together. Music taught him how to travel, how to speak without words, how to meet people whose language he did not know. Over the years, Rami developed other languages: photography, cinema, fragrance.

His work explores the poetry hidden in the simple gestures of everyday life. He has traveled around the world with his family, Céline, Lili, and Noé, gathering images, songs, fragrances, and stories that remind us the world inspires dreaming.

Through his films, photographs, and music, Rami seeks to convey a simple idea: in a world shaped by information, precision, and control, we should also take the time to look, smell, listen, dream, and allow ourselves to be transported by the magic and poetry of everyday life.

Together, this forms a rare sensory universe called Lola James Harper, which exudes the gentle intensity of moments that are captured without being imprisoned, and which continue to live on through the senses of the viewer, listener or reader.

His first feature film WITH was awarded for its cinematography, direction, and original score, affirming the scope of his artistic voice, through which he shares his approach to life: “Life is a song we play together.”

Through music, cinema, dance and photography, Lili Mekdachi practices the arts and crosses disciplines in the spirit of freedom that defines her family.

A multidisciplinary artist and contemporary dancer trained at the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London after several years at the Paris Conservatory, Lili brings to her photography a choreographic sensitivity, an instinctive relationship to space, balance, and movement dynamics.

As a filmmaker, she was nominated at the Cannes Film Awards for her first short film CRAFT & POWDER and is currently developing her first feature film.

As a composer, she co-created the award-winning original score for WITH and has collaborated with internationally renowned artists Joshua of Seventeen.

As a founding member of Lola James Harper, Lili has traveled around the world with her family, shaping her vision and compositional style.

What defines her visual writing style on her argentic film camera is her singular ability to capture the precise moment when reality becomes cinematic. Her images carry a gentle tension, an equilibrium of bodies, colors, light, and atmosphere, with a choreography that remains entirely organic and natural.

A key element of her visual universe is her relationship with music. Lili enjoys titling her photographs with references to songs from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, pop, rock, new wave, melodies that continue to shape generations. These titles are her way of embedding music within the image.

Her photography floats between reality and reverie, like scenes from a film one feels they have already lived.