Rania Matar Photographer

A sense of duality informs Matar's work. Much of that duality is what one might expect: East and West, rich and poor, war and peace. But what's most striking about Matar's photography is another duality: its balance between the realistic and poetic. She is the documentarian as lyricist, someone who, recording the incongruous, discovers the transcendent.

– Mark Feeney
Boston Globe, December 2009

The monograph A Girl and Her Room with essays by Susan Minot and Anne Tucker, was released May 2012. Publisher: Umbrage Editions.

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The monograph Ordinary Lives with text by Anthony Shadid, was released September 2009. Publisher Quantuck Lane Press, distribution by W.W. Norton.

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recent news...

A Girl and Her Room was featured in M Le magazine du Monde, Le Portfolio: Forts Intérieurs, by Emilie Grangeray

A Girl and Her Room named Best Book of 2012!
by Feature Shoot, PhotoEye, Le Journal de La Photographie, and PDN!

upcoming exhibitions...

Rawiya She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Boston MA
Exhibition dates: August 27, 2013 - January 12, 2014
Opening Reception: March 22, 8:00pm

L'Enfant-Femme
Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston MA
September 2013

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