On Photography, People and Modern Times, which
tracks photographic records that Zaatari researched and collected for the Arab Image Foundation in the late 1990s, is a meditation on intimate past moments evoked by photographs and a present environment that secures their preservation.
Predicated on the idea that the 2012 transit may be the last to be
recorded on celluloid (the next transit will occur in 2117), Black Drop
tracks the development of the French astronomer, Jules Janssen's innovative
photographic revolver — a device that was designed to counter human error in timing the crucial moments of Venus» contact with the edge of the sun, and was influential in the development of Etienne Jules Marey's
photographic rifle and the Lumiére Brother's cinematograph.