Rania Matar is one of twelve candidates shortlisted for the 43rd edition of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2023 (LOBA) for her series, “Fifty Years Later.” The LOBA has long been counted among the most prestigious and highly endowed photo prizes in the world.
Every year a global group of nominators made up of curators, gallery owners, art directors and picture editors each put forward up to three photographers from around the world. All photographs nominated must be of a documentary or conceptual-artistic nature, and deal with the relationship of humanity to the environment. This humanistic constant has been a feature of the LOBA competition, since its inception in 1979. That was the year in which Oskar Barnack, the developer of the Ur-Leica camera and whose name is given to the competition, would have been 100 years old.
Born in Lebanon in 1964, the American / Lebanese photographer dedicates her series to the women of the country: images capturing their presence, creativity, strength, dignity, and resilience are representative of the hopes, dreams, and fears of a whole generation.
For more information on Rania Matar you can visit her website here.
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You can see more of her available works over on the East Wing Artsy Page.
Rania Matar is represented by East Wing.
