Myriam Boulos: What's Ours

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Myriam Boulos: What's Ours presents a searing, diaristic portrayal of Lebanon during its revolutionary period beginning in 2019. Magnum nominee Myriam Boulos captures intimate, energetic moments of protest and everyday life amid government corruption, austerity, and the catastrophic Beirut port explosion of 2020. Her photography powerfully explores the body in public spaces as a symbol of vulnerability and resistance, offering an urgent and unflinching vision of a society in upheaval.
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This book will resonate with readers interested in contemporary arts and culture, documentary photography, Middle Eastern social movements, and political revolutions. It is ideal for those who appreciate visually driven narratives with a strong personal and socio-political dimension.

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A searing, diaristic portrayal of a city and society in revolution by Magnum nominee Myriam Boulos

In her debut monograph, Myriam Boulos: What's Ours 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781597115605

Publisher: Aperture

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Aperture

Edition: Bilingual edition

Illustration: 150 black-and-white and four-color images

Contributors:

Photographs by Myriam Boulos
Text by Mona Eltahawy
Designed by Maya Moumne
Text by Myriam Boulos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 771g

Pages: 216

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

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; Troisième 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.