Aperture PhotoBook Club
Myriam Boulos: What’s Ours
Wednesday, November 29
1:00 p.m. EDT
Join the Aperture PhotoBook Club in November to discuss What’s Ours (Aperture, 2023). Photographer Myriam Boulos and Aperture’s executive director, Sarah Meister, will be joined by Aperture editor in chief, Michael Famighetti, and graphic designer Maya Moumne.
In her debut monograph, which includes images made over a decade, Boulos casts a determined 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 photographs 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.”
This virtual public program is free and open to all.
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