Myriam Boulos


Myriam Boulos is a Lebanese documentary photographer and artist. Her work has been published in Vogue, Time, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. She has also participated in numerous international artistic exhibitions.

Early life and education

Boulos was born in 1992 in Beirut, Lebanon. She is a graduate of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts with a master's in photography in 2015.

Artistic career

Among Boulos' well-known series are Tenderness '', Dead End, Douce Virilite, Sunday, and Nightshift. She has taken part in both national and international exhibitions, such as at Photomed, Beirut Art Fair, Mashreq to Maghreb, Berlin PhotoWeek, and Les Jeux de la Francophonie, as well as other collective exhibitions in Paris; Amsterdam; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; New York; Berlin; Ulm; and Italy. In 2019 and 2020, her work was exhibited at the Arab World Institute and Middle East Institute.
Her photographs have featured in numerous national and international news and culture publications, such as Vogue, Time, Les Inrocks, and Vanity Fair. She is well-known for contributing to international reporting on the 2019 protests in Lebanon and 2020 port blast in Beirut, especially for Time Magazine. Her work was included in Times list of Best Portraits of 2020.
She is currently part of The Gemini Collective, alongside illustrator Michele Standjofski and psychologist Laura-Joy Boulos. In addition to photography, Boulos collaborates on and is a co-founder of the Beirut-based bilingual feminist magazine Al Hayya''.

Awards

Boulos was the recipient of the Byblos Bank Award for Photography in 2014. Her first solo exhibition took place in 2015. She also became a nominee with Magnum Photos in late 2021.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions