#Rania Matar

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Mariam, Khiyam Detention Center, Khiyam, Lebanon, 2019 - by Rania Matar (1964), Lebanese/Palestinian/American

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Rianna in the rain, Bhamdoun, Lebanon, 2023

Rania Matar

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Stephanie. Beirut, Lebanon, 2010

Photo: Rania Matar

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Alae - 2, Beirut, Lebanon, Rania Matar, 2021

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Rania Matar, Anna, Winchester, MA, 2009.

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Rania Matar

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Bisan, Bethlehem West Bank, 2010

Raissa, Medford MA 2009

Lilly, Brookline MA 2009

Hiba, Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut 2010

Rania Matar

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Lebanese-born US photographer Rania Matar took this image of Farah in Aabey, Lebanon, in 2020,for her series SHE. Matar says: ‘In this series I focus on young women in their 20s, the ages of my daughters. Farah was part of the young generation who had been protesting in Lebanon during the popular uprising of October 2019 to get rid of the corrupt government. There were factions trying to undermine the protests and they burned her car. We collaborated to portray the moment, immortalising the car before it went to the dump. It was an act of resistance and it was important to tell her story’

Photograph: Rania Matar

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Staff Pick of the Week

I’m highlighting Rania Matar’s latest photography book, She, published in October of 2021 by the New Mexico-based non-profit publisher Radius Books for this round of staff picks. Radius has donated over 75,000 of their fine art and photography books to libraries, schools, and art programs since their founding in 2007 and earmarks a portion of each publication for donation to underfunded libraries and arts programs. 

Rania Matar was born in Lebanon in 1964 and relocated to the United States in 1984. Matar is an award-winning photographer, most recently a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, whose work focuses on the daily lives of women and girls, informed by her cross-cultural experiences. The composition of the book, and the way it juxtaposes motifs across geographic space (the first two images above come on consecutive pages, image 8 & 9 are on facing pages) creates a sense of continuity of the feminine experience that transcends place. She is Matar’s fourth photography book. We also have Matar’s L’enfant-Femme (Damiani Editore, 2016) here in Special Collections -- a potential future post. That work focuses on girls in their pre-teens and early teens in the United States and Lebanon, with geographical and cultural differences bridged by the common experience of growing up. 

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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Venus, par Rania Matar, Liban, 2022

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Rania Matar

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Alae, Ramlet Al-Bayed, Beirut, Lebanon, 2020 - by Rania Matar (1964), Lebanese/Palestinian/American

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top photos: sara & jenin in bourj el barajneh refugee camp, beiruit, 2018 bottom photos: nisreen and ola in bourj el barajneh, and hiba, shatila palestinian refugee camp, beirut, 2010 by rania matar

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Rianna (Venus). Bhamdoun, Lebanon. 2022. From «SHE»

Photo: Rania Matar

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Photographer Rania Matar

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Rania Matar, Mariam, Bourj al Shamali Palestinian Refugee Camp, Tyre, Lebanon, 2009, from the series A Girl and Her Room.