Lamia Maria Abillama

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Lamia Maria Abillama
BornBorn 1962
Nationality Lebanese
Alma mater Sorbonne, Tufts University
Known forPhotography

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

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Education

Abillama was born in 1962 in Lebanon, to Lebanese-Brazilian parents. [1] She studied at the Sorbonne, Paris and Tufts University, Boston. She then practised as a lawyer. [2] After taking photography classes at the International Center of Photography in New York City, she began exhibiting her work as a photographer. [2]

Career

Abillama's photo series Clashing Realities consists of portraits of Lebanese women wearing military uniforms, in their homes. [3] [4] [5] 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." [6]

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. [7]

Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [8] and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. [9]

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References

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