A few years ago, photographer Rania Matar spending time in Ohio, in the dead of winter. The Lebanese-born artist had been awarded a residency at Kenyon College for the 2017–18 academic year. Born in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Rhea (and the Mirror)," Beirut, Lebanon, 2021 Rania Matar There’s no easy way to look at images shaped by war, memory and ...

While many photographers focus on either aesthetics or rigorous documentation, Rania Matar fuses them — and adds a generous dose of humanity for good measure. Born and raised in Lebanon, the ...

Lebanon is a country built on dichotomies. It is a blend of cultures, poised at the intersection between the Western and Arab worlds. Born in Beirut and living in the West, photographer Rania Matar is ...

On the second floor of the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, a darkened room filled with 50 attendees. At its center hung a striking black-and-white photograph of a child standing in front of ...

When Rania Matar was a teenager in Lebanon, her country was ensnarled in a long and bloody civil war. But her bedroom betrayed little of what was going on outside — in typical teenage fashion, she ...

Rania Matar, “Christilla, Rabieh, Lebanon” (2010) (all images courtesy the artist and Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston) CHICAGO — An adolescent girl in her bedroom is a curious thing. If she has her ...

Female beauty is on display in “SHE,” a touring exhibition at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. But in Rania Matar‘s large-scale color photographs, beauty is not just skin-deep. The subjects are ...