Rania Matar

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Rania Matar
Rania Matar Portrait.jpg
Born1964 (age 56–57)
Lebanon
NationalityAmerican / Lebanese
Alma materAmerican University of Beirut,
Cornell University
Known forFine art photography
Websitewww.raniamatar.com
Becoming at RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco
She Who Tells a Story exhibited at National Museum of Women in the Arts

Rania Matar (born 1964) is a Lebanese/Palestinian/American documentary, portrait and fine art photographer. She photographs the daily lives of girls and women in the Middle East and in the United States, including Syrian refugees.[1]

Early life[]

Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984.[2] Originally trained as an architect at the American University of Beirut and at Cornell University, she later studied photography at the New England School of Photography and the Maine Photographic Workshops. Since 2009 she has taught photographic workshops for teenage girls in Lebanon’s refugee camps. She now teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and exhibits her work worldwide.[3]

Career[]

Matar has made several series of photographs, including SHE, L'Enfant Femme, Unspoken Conversations, Women Coming of Age, A Girl and Her Room, Invisible Children, and Ordinary Lives. Her portraits explore gender studies and often consider varying national identities.[2] L'Enfant Femme depicts preteen girls living in the United States and the Middle East, and focuses on documenting the age between childhood and maturity.[4] Mothers and daughters are photographed together and present a universal nature of womanhood in the series Unspoken Conversations.[4] Matar began her series Invisible Children after a visit to Beirut in 2014. She noticed how many Syrian refugee children were on the streets begging for work and money.[5] This series documents the individuality of each child.[6] In 2017, Matar's work was included in the Biennale of the Contemporary Arab World held in Paris at the Arab World Institute.[7]

Publications[]

L'Enfant-Femme at Carroll and Sons

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Looking at the Invisible Children Growing Up as Refugees". Hyperallergic. 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Rania Matar: Invisible Children at C. Grimaldis Gallery". Photograph Magazine. 2016-10-07. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  3. ^ "Dubaï : Rania Matar, Becoming Girls, Women and Coming of Age - The Eye of Photography". The Eye of Photography. 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "These Photos Beautifully Capture the Complex Relationship Between Mothers and Daughters". Slate. 2015-03-04. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  5. ^ Urist, Jacoba. "How Should Art Address Human Rights?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  6. ^ "Giving Syrian children their identities back, one portrait at a time". Public Radio International. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  7. ^ "Biennale of Arab Photographers : Interview with Rania Matar - The Eye of Photography". The Eye of Photography. 2017-09-27. Retrieved 2017-09-28.
  8. ^ "photo-eye | Magazine". www.photoeye.com. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  9. ^ "Notable Photo Books of 2016: Part 2". PDN Online. 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  10. ^ "Rania Matar Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation".

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