Description
Title: Myriam Boulos: What’s Ours: 150 black-and-white and four-color images: designed by Maya Moumne Maya
Author: BOULOS MYRIAM (PHOTOGRAPHS)
Illustrator: ELTAHAWY MONA/BOULOS MYRIAM (TEXT)
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/03/2024
Imprint: APERTURE
Price: $90.00
Publishing status: Active
A searing, diaristic portrayal of a city and society in revolution by Magnum nominee Myriam Boulos
In her debut monograph, Myriam Boulos casts an unflinching eye on the revolution that began in Lebanon in 2019 with protests against government corruption and austerity – culminating with the aftermath of the devastating Beirut port explosion of August 2020. She portrays her friends and family with startling energy and intimacy, in states of pleasure and protest. Boulos renders the body in public space as a powerful motif, both visceral and vulnerable in the face of state neglect and violence. Of her approach to photography, Boulos states: ‘It’s more of a need than a choice. I obsess about things and I don’t know how to deal with these obsessions in any other way but photography’. Featuring a contextual essay by noted writer Mona Eltahawy, What’s Ours showcases Boulos’s strident and urgent vision.
Author Biography: Myriam Boulos (born in Beirut, 1992) emerged from a country fragmented by war that had to reinvent itself. At the age of sixteen, she started to use her camera to question Beirut, its people, and her own position in Lebanese society. She graduated with a master’s degree in photography from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. She has taken part in both national and international collective exhibitions, including Infinite Identities at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; Troisieme Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe, Paris; C’est Beyrouth at the Institute of Islamic Cultures, Paris; Berlin Photo Week; and Photomed, Beirut. She received the Purple Lens Award in 2014, which resulted in her first solo exhibition in 2015. Her second solo exhibition took place at the French Institute of Lebanon in 2019. Her work has been published in Aperture, FOAM, Vogue, Time, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning writer on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015), founder of the newsletter Feminist Giant, and a regular contributor to the New York Times.
Promotional Information:
Center artist with interviews across US and European press outlets, including Middle East-based writers and publications and platforms such as Culture, ELLE, Hyperallergic, Purple, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Them
Strategize with artist to leverage social media presence
Book launch and signings with artist ted to Paris Photo in November
Producing launch video interview with Myriam
ISBN: 9781597115605
Dimension: 218mm X 180mm
Edition: 01