Myriam Boulos
Myriam Boulos (ميريم بولس; born 1992) is a Lebanese documentary photographer and artist. Her work has been published in Vogue, Time, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. She has also participated in numerous international artistic exhibitions.
Myriam Boulos
- Name
- Myriam Boulos
- Born
- 1992
- Birthplace
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Occupation
- Documentary photographer and artist
- Known for
- Photography
- Nationality
- Lebanon.
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Myriam Boulos (ميريم بولس; born 1992) is a Lebanese documentary photographer and artist. Her work has been published in Vogue, Time, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. She has also participated in numerous international artistic exhibitions.
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• Name — Myriam Boulos • Born — 1992 • Birthplace — Beirut, Lebanon • Occupation — Documentary photographer and artist • Known for — Photography
Early life and education
Early life and education
Boulos was born in 1992 in Beirut, Lebanon. She is a graduate of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts with a master's in photography in 2015.
Artistic career
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 Arab World Institute and Middle East Institute. Her photographs have featured in numerous national and international news and culture publications, such as Vogue, Time, Les Inrocks, 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 Time Magazine. Her work was included in Times 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.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Dead End." 2019, Institut Francais du Liban, Beirut
Group exhibitions
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, International Center of Photography, New York, New York.
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Myriam Boulos is recorded with the occupation photographer. Recorded as photographer and artist.
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1992
Myriam Boulos was born on 1 January 1992.
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Awards
Boulos 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 Magnum Photos in late 2021.
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- 1.McCarthy, Hannah. Beirut photographer Myriam Boulos searches for tenderness amid destruction. Middle East Eye. 15 Feb 2021.
- 2.Akerman, Ian. Why we're loving: Myriam Boulos. Campaign Middle East. 24 June 2016.
- 3.Myriam Boulos. Fashion Trust Arabia.
- 4.Abdulaal, Mirna. In Photos: The Other Hijab and the Blurred Identity of Women in the Arab World. Egyptian Streets. 2021-09-12.
- 5.Galerie Janine Rubeiz. www.galeriejaninerubeiz.com.
- 6.Montazami, Morad. Myriam Boulos. AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes.
- 7.LensCulture, Myriam Boulos. Myriam Boulos. LensCulture.
- 8.Myriam Boulos in conversation with Gem Fletcher. Rocket Science.
- 9.x-publishers. Myriam Boulos: Tenderness. www.gupmagazine.com.
- 10.About Myriam Boulos. Cargo Collective.
- 11.Myriam Boulos on Photography, Documenting Lebanon and Social Justice. www.artbreath.org.
- 12.Saleem, Athwifa. "This New Photography Exhibition Will Show You Exactly How Lebanon Has Changed Throughout The Past 14 Years." Harper's Bazaar Arabia. 14 July 2020.
- 13.Vick, Karl. After the Beirut Explosion, a Photographer Captures a Drive for Reform. Time. 15 Aug 2020.
- 14.Collard, Rebecca. How the Protests in Lebanon Became the Biggest to Sweep the Country in a Decade. Time. 22 Oct 2019.
- 15.Inspiration - Myriam Boulos. Centre for Creative Photography.
- 16.TIME's Best Portraits of 2020. Time. 2 December 2020.
- 17.Moussa, Lynn Sheikh. Al Hayya founders talk agency and making a magazine for other women. Beirut Today. 2022-03-31.
- 18.Magnum Nominee Myriam Boulos: "I don't know how to deal with these obsessions in any other way but through photography" Magnum Photos Magnum Photos. Magnum Photos.
- 19.About Myriam Boulos - Myriam Boulos. cargocollective.com.
- 20.Staff, i-D. 'It's Lebanon's anarchy that bothers you'. i-d.vice.com.
- 21.Lebanon Then and Now. Middle East Institute.
- 22.Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum. International Center of Photography. 2022-07-14.
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