Lamia Maria Abillama
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Lebanon
Alma materSorbonne,
Tufts University,
International Center of Photography
Known forPhotography

Lamia Maria Abillama (born 1962) is a Lebanese photographer.[1]

Education

Abillama was born in 1962 in Lebanon, to Lebanese-Brazilian parents.[2] She studied at the Sorbonne (now University of Paris) in Paris and Tufts University in Boston.[3] She then practised as a lawyer.[3] After taking photography classes at the International Center of Photography in New York City, she began exhibiting her work as a photographer.[3]

Career

Abillama's photo series Clashing Realities consists of portraits of Lebanese women wearing military uniforms, in their homes.[4][5][6] Abillama has said that "in asking a group of Lebanese women to put on combat uniforms as a symbol of the violence that has so affected their lives, my aim has been to indicate the extent to which they have been impacted by the decades of conflict."[7]

In 2020 she was included in the exhibition Lebanon Then and Now: Photography From 2006 to 2020 held at the Middle East Institute, Washington D.C.[8]

Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[9] and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Yusuf, Muhammad (July 16, 2020). "Photography exhibition on Lebanon focuses on its worrisome history". Gulf Today. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  2. ↑ "About the Artists". Middle East Institute.
  3. 1 2 3 Rosenberg, David (29 April 2015). "For the Women of Lebanon, Camouflage Can Feel Like a Second Skin". Slate Magazine.
  4. ↑ Abouzeid, Rania (7 May 2015). "Violence, Camouflaged: Portraits of Lebanese Women". The New Yorker.
  5. ↑ "Beirut's female photographers capture a scarred past and an embattled present". Huck Magazine. 27 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "Le Liban ausculté par ses photographes". La Croix (in French). 20 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "A look at the Arab world in Paris Biennale of Photographers of the Contemporary Arab World - Culture - Al-Ahram Weekly". Ahram Online.
  8. ↑ Sweetman, Rebecca (December 2006). "Then and now: Photographing antiquity". History of Photography. pp. 389–391. doi:10.1080/03087298.2006.10443492.
  9. ↑ "Lamia Maria Abillama". mfah.org.
  10. ↑ "Lamia Maria Abillama | "Arilda" aus der Serie "Ladies of Rio" | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg". sammlungonline.mkg-hamburg.de.


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