Rania Matar Biography

MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS

Spring 2009: Upcoming monograph "Ordinary Lives", with text by Anthony Shadid, publisher Mets and Schilt.

May-June 2008 Issue: "The Aftermath," By Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Wellesley Women's Review of Books

January-February 2008 Issue: "Rania Matar: Lebanon at the Crossroads," By Catherine Laferriere, Artscope Magazine

January 17, 2008: "Photographing the Human Spirit," By Scott Kearnan, South End News

January 2008 Issue: "Veiled References," By Kristen Paulson, Brookline Magazine

"Act of Faith," Featuring the Images of the Exhibition "Act of Faith", Noorderlicht, 2007

November 2007 Issue: "Rania Matar: Savas, Sonrasi Kadinlar ve Çocuklar," Fotoritim

October-November 2007: "Interior Worlds, Exterior Visions," By Shawn Hill, Art New England

September 13, 2007: "Finding Humanity Among Ruin," By Denise Taylor, Boston Globe

"Turning Silver," Women in Photography International, 25th anniversary book publication of winning images

Black and White Spider Awards Book: "The World's Greatest Black & White Photography, No. 1

October 2007: B&W Magazine, Spotlight Award

August 23, 2007: Silver Eye takes us through The Looking Glass, By Savannah Guz, Pittsburgh City Paper

May 2007: "Under Cover," Boston Globe

March 2007: "Elle" Middle East

March 2007: "History Recalls and Nothing Has Changed"
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

February 2007: Moving Walls: "Pour voir au-delà de..."
l'article de Colette Khalaf, L'Orient-Le-Jour newspaper, Beirut Lebanon

February 2007: Des photos pour franchir les murs
L'Agenda Culturel, Beirut Lebanon

November 2006: Single Image Contest
Black & White Magazine, Special Issue 2007

August 2006: Excellence Award: Rania Matar
Black & White Magazine, Annual 2006

Summer 2006: The Veil: Modesty, Fashion, Religious Devotion or Political Statement?
SHOTS Magazine, Issue 92, The Documentary & Photojournalism Issue

February/March 2006: Rania Matar: A Forgotten Population
By Jenni T. Williamson, Art New England, Vol. 27, Issue 2

Friday, September 23, 2005: Local photographer works to document forgotten lives
By Anna Katherine Clemmons/ Correspondent, Allston-Brighton TAB
The same article also appeared in the Brookline TAB on September 30, 2005.

Saturday, August 13, 2005 : Photographer gets in the face of refugee problem
Rania Matar documents life in the Palestinian camps of Lebanon in the series 'A Forgotten Population'
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Daily Star staff
(The Daily Star is an English language newspaper associated with The Herald Tribune in Lebanon)

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