Untitled, from What’s Ours

Aperture is pleased to offer this very special limited-edition print by Myriam Boulos on the occasion of the publication of What's Ours. Myriam Boulos has created a searing, diaristic body of work portraying friends, family and her city’s society with startling energy and intimacy. This image is from her debut monograph, 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. 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 is an opportunity to collect the work of one of photography's new voices and recent Magnum member photographer.

Archival pigment print
8 x 10 inches, accompanied by a copy of What’s Ours
Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

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 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.