In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are republishing this 2017 profile of acclaimed portrait photographer Rania Matar. Since this story first appeared, Ms. Matar was awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, released the 2021 monograph SHE, published by Radius books, and was one of three recipients of a 2022 Leica Women Foto Project Award for her recent portrait series featuring young Lebanese women, entitled Where Do I Go?
Rania Matar did not anticipate a career in photography when she first started making pictures of her kids in the late 1990s. Schooled as an architect and living in the suburbs of Boston, she started taking photography workshops while pregnant with her fourth child. Her record of simple, mundane moments of beauty developed into an unspoken familial bond.
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“It became this kind of relationship we had,” she says. “Instead of doing something else, I was so present with their life, and with the child play that was going on.”
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