Myriam Boulos (ميريم بولس) (born 1992) is a Lebanese documentary photographer and artist. Her work has been published in ''

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,'' and '' Vanity Fair'', among other publications. She has also participated in numerous international artistic exhibitions.

Early life and education

Boulos was born in 1992 in

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. She is a graduate of the

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with a master's in photography in 2015.

Artistic career

Among Boulos' well-known series are ''Tenderness'' (2018–2021)'', Dead End'' (2019), ''Douce Virilite'' (2017), ''Sunday,'' and ''Nightshift'' (2015). She has taken part in both national and international exhibitions, such as at Photomed, Beirut Art Fair, Mashreq to Maghreb (Germany), Berlin PhotoWeek (Germany), and Les Jeux de la Francophonie (Cote d'Ivoire), as well as other collective exhibitions in Paris; Amsterdam; Washington D.C.; San Francisco; New York; Berlin; Ulm; and Italy. In 2019 and 2020, her work was exhibited at the

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and

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. Her photographs have featured in numerous national and international news and culture publications, such as ''

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,'' and '' Vanity Fair.'' She is well-known for contributing to international reporting on the 2019 protests in Lebanon and 2020 port blast in Beirut, especially for ''

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''. Her work was included in Time's list of Best Portraits of 2020. She is currently part of The Gemini Collective alongside illustrator Michele Standjofski (1960, Beirut) and psychologist Laura-Joy Boulos (1989, Beirut). In addition to photography, Boulos collaborates on and is a co-founder of the Beirut-based bilingual feminist magazine ''Al Hayya.''

Awards

She was the recipient of the Byblos Bank Award for Photography (Purple Lens Award) in 2014. Her first solo exhibition took place in 2015. She also became a nominee with

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in late 2021.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* “Dead End." 2019, Institut Francais du Liban, Beirut

Group exhibitions

* ''“IT’S LEBANON’S ANARCHY THAT BOTHERS YOU."'' 2020, Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France. * ''Lebanon Then and Now: Photography from 2006 to 2020''. July 13, 2020 - October 6, 2020, MEI Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA. * ''Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum. September 29, 2022-January 9, 2023,

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, New York, New York.''

References

{{Reflist Lebanese photographers Documentary photographers Arab women artists Arab feminists 1992 births Living people