"Unveiled" Aita El Chaab, Lebanon 2006

by award winning photographer Rania Matar.

Archival inkjet print from scanned negative.  Image size 24"x 36", frame size 28" x 40"

Rania Matar was born and raised in Lebanon. After studying architecture at American University in Beirut, Rania left Lebanon in 1984 and completed her training at Cornell University in the United States. She studied photography at the New England School of Photography and at the Maine Photographic Workshops in Mexico with Magnum photographer Constantine Manos, and eventually gave up her career as an architect to work as a freelance photographer.

Rania has traveled widely in the Middle East and has photographed street scenes in Lebanon, Syria and Turkey. Her work focuses mainly on women and children in the Middle East, and her recent projects – which examine the Palestinian refugee camps, the veil and its meanings, and the aftermath of war – give a voice to people who have been forgotten or misunderstood.

http://www.raniamatar.com/