media & publications
2010
Résurgences
Revue Triages, Numero 22, with poems by Catherine Ribes de Palma
Revue litteraire et artistique, Tarabuste Editions, Paris France
Winner of the Third Prize at "Lebanese Diaspora" International Art Exhibition, Rania Matar talks to LERC
Interviewed by Elie Nabhan
April 16, 1010
Boston Week: Rania Matar
Lenscratch by Aline Smithson
April 22, 1010
Rania Matar
Featured photograph "Brittany 19"
VERVE Photo, April 12, 2010
A Girl and her Room
Urban Magazine Italy, with text by Federico Della Bella, February 2010
Ordinary Lives
SocialDocumentary.net Featured Artist
Rania Matar
Featured Artist, Levantine Cultural Center, March 2010
Artist of this Issue: Rania Matar
Annahar Newspaper Art and Culture Section, Beirut, February 28, 2010
Light Breaks the Darkness: An Interview with Rania Matar, Part 1
Yell Softly, January 21, 2010
Light Breaks the Darkness: An Interview with Rania Matar, Part 2
Yell Softly, January 22, 2010
Moving Pictures
An intimate look at Lebanon through the lens of Rania Matar
The Review, The National, UAE
connection American
Susan Burnstine reports on an American-based photographer working in the Middle East
B&W Magazine UK
2009 Competition Winners
The Photo Review, Juried by Lesley Martin
Ordinary Lives
Apogee Photo Magazine, Book Review by Elizabeth Powis
Christians of the Middle East
featured in The Dewarist Russian Photography Blog, Esquire Russia
Rania Matar and Natan Dvir
An Interview by Susan Burnstine
F-Stop A Photography Magazine
Ordinary Lives
The Photo Review Magazine, Book Review by Susan Burnstine, Volume 29, Number 1
Being on the Edge Between Two Worlds
Bite Magazine (formerly The Black Snapper), Online Exhibition Curated by Elie Domit, The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai
I Was Humbled By People's Resilience And Hospitality
Bite Magazine (formerly The Black Snapper), Online Exhibition Selected by Margo de Beijer
Ordinary Lives
Leica Magazine Book Review, January 2010
Ordinary Lives
Photo-Eye Magazine Book Review, by Susan Burnstine
2009
Ordinary Lives
Moors Magazine Book Review, November 2009
Ordinary Lives at Galerie Janine Rubeiz
Al Mustaqbal Art Review, October 20, 2009
Quand la camera se dote d'une incomparable sensibilite
L'Orient le Jour Art Review, by Edgar Davidian, October 12, 2009
Ordinary Lives at Galerie Janine Rubeiz
Annahar Newspaper, October 14, 2009
PRC Juried Publication
Photographic Resource Center Magazine, Juried by Dana Faconti, Blind Spot Editor and Publisher, September 2009
Exhibition: Man, Life Circulations
St Petersburg Times, Top Stories, September 18, 2009
Rania Matar: Un Art Photographique Conferant son Charactere Particulier
Revue du Liban, by Nicole Malhame September 2009
Gaining Focus
Boston Magazine, by Eva Medoff, September 2009
The Forgotten People
Nueva Luz Photographic Journal #13, En Foco, Spring 2009
The Veil
Post Road Magazine, Issue #17, Spring 2009
Just life, frame by poetic frame
Boston Globe Art Review by Mark Feeney, December 26, 2009
Ordinary Lives: The Agony and Passion of Lebanon
Middle East Open Forum by Basil Hakki, December 27, 2009
The Pursuit of Happiness
a Photo Album, Catalog Noorderlicht Photofestival 2009
The American Dream
100 Eyes Magazine, December 2009
A Close-up View of Everyday People
Boston Globe Photography Review by Mark Feeney, December 8, 2009
Rania Matar: The Forgotten People
Of Note Magazine, by Grace Aneiza Ali, December 2009
Everything is Normal
Al Ittihad Abu Dhabi, by Ghalia Kabbani, December 2009
Ordinary Lives
The Bloomsbury Review Volume 29, Issue 5, Book Review by R.K. Dickson, November/December 2009
'Three Concerned Women' Shines a Light on Cultures Around the World
MetroWest Daily News, by Chris Bergeron, November 12, 2009
Normal Lives, Extraordinary Circumstances
The Daily Star, by Emily Holman, November 9, 2009
Duality Inspires Lebanon Images
Boston Globe Photography Review by Mark Feeney, November 7, 2009
2008
The Aftermath
Wellesley Women's Review of Books, by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, May-June 2008 Issue
Rania Matar: Lebanon at the Crossroads
Artscope Magazine, By Catherine Laferriere, January-February 2008 Issue
Photographing the Human Spirit
South End News, By Scott Kearnan, January 17, 2008
Veiled References
Brookline Magazine, By Kristen Paulson, January 2008 Issue
ICA FOSTER PRIZE PRESS:
2008 ICA FOSTER PRIZE FINALISTS: A Conversation with Rania Matar
Big Red and Shiny, By Matthew Gamber, December 14, 2008
At the ICA, striking photo of Three Nuns
Boston Globe, By Michael Paulson, Articles of Faith, November 24, 2008
Eyes on the Prize
Boston Globe, By Sebastian Smee, November 22, 2008
Four Eyes: ICA's Foster Prize Showcases Boston Artists' Varied Visions
Boston Herald, By Keith Powers, November 20, 2008
Foster prize competitors bring works to the ICA
Suffolk Journal, By Erica Lawton, November 19, 2008
Game Show - Who will win the ICA's Foster Prize?
The Phoenix, By Greg Cook, November 18, 2008
2007
Act of Faith
On Faith and Conflict, Ecstasy and Excess, Catalog Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007
Rania Matar: Savas, Sonrasi Kadinlar ve Çocuklar
Fotoritim, November 2007 Issue
Interior Worlds, Exterior Visions
Art New England, By Shawn Hill, October-November 2007
Turning Silver
25th Anniversary, Juror Choice 100, Women in Photography International, November 2007 Issue
The World's Greatest Black & White Photography
Black & White Spider Awards Book, #1
Spotlight Award
B&W Magazine, October 2007
Finding Humanity Among Ruin
Boston Globe, By Denise Taylor, September 13, 2007
Silver Eye takes us through The Looking Glass
Pittsburgh City Paper, By Savannah Guz, August 23, 2007
Under Cover
Boston Globe, April 2007
History Recalls and Nothing Has Changed
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 2007
Moving Walls: "Pour voir au-delà de..."
L'Orient-Le-Jour, l'article de Colette Khalaf, February 2007
Des photos pour franchir les murs
L'Agenda Culturel, February 2007
2006-2005
Local photographer works to document forgotten lives
Allston-Brighton TAB, By Anna Katherine Clemmons, September 23, 2005
Photographer gets in the face of refugee problem
Daily Star, By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, August 13, 2005
Excellence Award: Rania Matar
Black & White Magazine, Annual 2006
The Veil: Modesty, Fashion, Religious Devotion or Political Statement?
SHOTS Magazine, Issue 92, The Documentary & Photojournalism Issue, Summer 2006
Rania Matar: A Forgotten Population
Art New England, By Jenni T. Williamson, February/March 2006