A Decade of Heartfelt Narratives by Middle Eastern Women Photographers
By Nilofer Khan
The Phoblographer
R.F. Kuang Has Called Out The Publishing Industry With Satire. But The Truth Is, She’s Ready For Change.
By Marilyn La Jeunesse
Photography by Rania Matar
Photography by Rania Matar
Huffington Post
Amid a war in Lebanon, a photographer and her subject reconnect almost 20 years later
By Shirin Jaafari
The World
This Woman-Led Photography Exhibition Showcases the Diversity of Middle Eastern Femininity
By Julia Binswanger
Smithsonian Magazine
How photographs at Sharjah’s Xposure festival reveal harrowing, majestic and inert truths
By Razmig Bedirian
The National, UAE
Rania Matar Bridges Cultures and Perceptions Through the Art of Photography at XPOSURE 2024
SHARJAH GOVT MEDIA BUREAU
Women Art Photographers Spotlight Injustice in the Upcoming Exhibition By MIA Art Collection
By Maie
Art Historian Maie
I focused on the chance to survive. She was very small but real.
Interview by Heike Le Ker
Photography by Rania Matar
Photography by Rania Matar
Spiegel Health
Photojournalism is dominated by men. Women Photograph seeks to change that lens.
By Lydia Chebbine
The 19th
Community and validation: Leica Women Foto awardees on their career-changing wins
by Philippa Kelly
British Journal of Photography
The National Portrait Gallery Presents The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today
By National Portrait Gallery
Hyperallergic
Prix Leica Women Foto Project 2022, Rania Matar dédie « Where Do I Go ? » à ceux qui restent au Liban
By Sylviane ZÉHIL
L'Orient-Le Jour
National Portrait Gallery Announces Finalists in Sixth Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Panoramas and Personas: Setting and Subject in Rania Matar’s Photographic Works
By Hannah Walker
Beyond Boudaries Journal
Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio
She: Rania Matar’s Portraits of American and Middle Eastern Young Women Entering Adulthood
By Mark Alice Durant
Humble Arts Foundation
Gallery Roundup: Spatial Fabrications at MONO Practice, Juan Gris at BMA, Rania Matar at C. Grimaldis Gallery
By Michael Anthony Farley
Bmore Art
Lebanese American Photographer Captures the Universal Experience of Womanhood [Interview]
By Jessica Stewart
My Modern Met
Great women in art history make a comeback: the New Woman at the Met and Aware in Paris
Podcast: Helen Stoilas interviews Orin Zahra
The Art Newspaper
EXPANSIONS: Responses to HOW WILL WE LIVE TOGETHER
Edited by Hashim Sarkis and Ala Tannir
Venice Biennale
Photographer Rania Matar at the Cornell Museum: capturing the beauty of mundane moments – even through a window
By Marialuisa Miraglia
Whitehot Magazine
Lives in limbo: How Rania Matar’s lockdown portraits captured the isolation of a lost year
By India Stoughton
The National, UAE
Cornell Fine Arts Museum : Rania Matar : On Either Side of the Window, Portraits During COVID-19
L'Oeil de la Photographie
Rania Matar’s hauntingly beautiful lockdown portraits go on show in Florida – see them here
By Aimee Dawson
The Art Newspaper
In the galleries: Middle East artists examine sheltering in place amid pandemic
By Mark Jenkins
Washington Post
Rania Matar – On Either Side of the Window, Portraits During COVID-19
Cornell Fine Arts Museum Exhibition Catalogue
Cette photographe pénètre dans l’intimité des personnes confinées : 15 images belles et percutantes
By Mégane Bouron
PositivR
New photography series from Rania Matar connects viewers through observation of isolation
By Chadd Scott
See Great Art
Photographer Rania Matar offers a window on the world during quarantine
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith
Wallpaper Magazine
Art in Isolation: 39 Middle Eastern artists present work made during Covid-19 pandemic
By Alexandra Chaves
The National, UAE
Los Angeles shows its love for Beirut with online charity art auction
By Aimee Dawson
The Art Newspaper
Le secteur culturel et les artistes au chevet de la ville
By Maya Ghandour Hert, Colette Khalaf, and Gilles Khoury
L'Orient-Le Jour
Portraits Through Windows: Photographs of people at home before and after the Covid-19 pandemic
By Katy Cowan
Creative Boom
Lisa Taddeo: «Il sesso, i corpi, sé stesse. Vi racconto i desideri che le donne non dicono»
By Teresa Ciabatti
Corriere della Sera
Kid-centered photo show is anything but cute at Minneapolis Institute of Art
By Alicia Eler
Minneapolis Star Tribune
‘Just Kids’ – New photo exhibit at Minneapolis Institute of Art focuses on kids
By Kathy Berdan
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
Lebanese photographer Rania Matar explores women in nature for new US exhibition
Architectural Digest Middle East
A view of women’s bodies, by 12 female photographers, that is by turns playful, provocative and profound
By Vanessa H. Larson
Washington Post
Lebanese-American Photographer Documents Shared Experiences of Girlhood
Interview by Josie Taris & Frank Stasio
WUNC Public Radio
Tools of the Trade: Survey of AIPAD’s Fine Art Photography Audience
By Jill Waterman
EXPLORA - B&H Photo Video
Alumni Profile: From Her Perspective: Rania Matar’s Intimate, Vulnerable Portraits
By Alison Freeland
MainGate AUB Magazine
Female Photographers at the 2019 AIPAD Photography Show, Part 1 of 2
By Loring Knoblauch
Collector Daily
At Exciting, Slightly Smaller AIPAD Photography Show, What’s Old Feels New Again
By Sammy Dalati
ARTnews
MIA Photo Fair 2019 a Milano: le iniziative culturali di BNL per la nona edizione della fiera
Giulia Ronchi
Milan Photo Fair, Artribune
From Girlhood to Womanhood: Photos by Rania Matar Spark Intergenerational Conversation
By Hajnal Eppley
MEDIUM
Beautiful Awkwardness: The Lebanese Photographer Capturing Mirrored Lives of Arab & American Women
By Farah Hosney
SCENE Arabia
Art Game Hustle: Guggenheim’s 2018 Photography Fellows on What it Takes to Earn the Most Prestigious Honor
By Roula Seikaly
Humble Arts Foundation NY
Female artists a force to be reckoned with in concurrent exhibits at the Amon Carter
By Marilyn Bailey
Star Telegraph
TRIO – The Amon Carter conjures up unspoken conversations, shadows, and secret ceremony
By Christopher Blay
Fort Worth Weekly
Striking New Texas Art Exhibit Shows Teenage Girls as They Want to be Seen
By Natalie Gempel
Papercity Magazine
Photography series explores mothers and daughters, and their relationships around the world
By Chloe Coleman
Washington Post
Borders and Margins
Cover by Rania Matar, text by Banu Gökariksel
Journal of Middle East Women's Study
The C. Grimaldis Gallery Opens Its Doors to Socially Conscious Voices
Exhibition Review by Andy Clark
BmoreArt
A Show of Lebanese Art Suffused with the Longing of Exile
Exhibition Review by Sarah Rose Sharp
Hyperallergic
Rania Matar, A Girl and Her Room – On growing up and growing old
By Sandra Williams
Tribe Magazine
Spring 2017 Issue
YIELD Award Nomination
Nominated by Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art
Snite Museum of Art Purchase Award
Images of girls on the road to womanhood
By Joanne Ciccarello
Photo Books: Staff Picks, The Christian Science Monitor Weekly
Powerful Portraits of the "Invisible Children" Growing Up as Refugees
By Jessica Stewart
My Modern Met
Rania Matar: Invisible Children at C. Grimaldis Gallery
Review by Mark Alice Durant
Photograph Magazine
A Lebanese Photographer Takes Cross-Cultural Portraits of Girls on the Brink of Womanhood
By Bridget Gleeson
Artsy
This inspiring photographer documents girls’ coming-of-age in the US and Middle East
By Kinsey Sullivan
Hello Giggles
Middle Eastern photographers capture small joys amid big conflicts
By Emma-Kate Symons
Women in the World, New York Times
A woman’s place in the Middle East? For some, it’s behind a camera.
By Philip Kennicott
Washington Post
Rania Matar Captures the Universal Awkwardness of Coming of Age
Book review and interview with Emily Manning
i-D magazine
The most inspiring and surprising images you’ll see this week
By Char Jansen
Viewfinder, The Daily Telegraph
Photographer Rania Matar lectures at the Carnegie about how her work reflects her life
By Mary Thomas
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Carnegie Museum exhibit shows power of day-to-day living in Arab countries
By Kurt Shaw
The Tribune, Pittsburgh
Photographer Rania Matar: Telling Women’s Stories
Interview for Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Awards 40th Anniversary
These Photos Beautifully Capture the Complex Relationship Between Mothers and Daughters
By David Rosenberg
Slate
4 Contemporary Female Photographers Who Put The Middle East In Perspective
By Katherine Brooks
Huffington Post
‘She Who Tells A Story’ Exhibit At MFA Boston Showcases Talented Female Photographers From The Middle East
By Omar Sacirbey
Huffington Post
She Who Tells a Story: A Window Into the World of Female Photographers in the Middle East
by Lori Zimmer
Huffington Post
MFA exhibit features women photographers from the Arab world
By Mark Shanahan & Meredith Goldstein
The Names Blog, Boston Globe
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World
Exhibition Information
MFA Boston
Arab And Iranian Female Photographers Collide For ‘She Who Tells a Story’ At MFA Boston
By Priscilla Frank
The Huffington Post
Ordinary Lives: Women of the Middle East
Sana Gallery Exhibition Review
Harper's Bazaar
Winter 2012/2013
A Girl and Her Room: Portraits of Teenage Girls’ Inner Worlds Through Their Bedroom Interiors
By Maria Popova
Brain Pickings
