RANIA MATAR, LEILA REICHERT, KIM GHATTAS, YOUMNA CHAMIEH, GEORGES BOUSTANY, 'Where Do I Go?'
Where Do I Go?
Pages: 240
Kaph Books, Eskenazi Museum, 2025
2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War. As we reach this symbolic date, Lebanon still suffers from its consequences.
In Where Do I Go?, Rania Matar collaborates with women to visually tell their story and their relationship to this beautiful and broken country. She sees her younger self in these women as she herself was 20 when she left Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. The process is collaborative, and the photo session always evolves organically as the women become active participants in the image-making process, presiding over the environment, and making it their own.
In her words: “While my photographs may not provide solutions or closure, I hope they nevertheless invite the viewer to pause and find the beauty, the hope, the shared humanity, and the grace that still exist despite everything. They are my love letters to the women of Lebanon. This project is for us all: the ones who stayed and the ones who left but can never leave.”
Designed by Clara Sancho Studio
Essays by Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert, Kim G Hattas, Youmna Chamieh, Georges Boustany
Vintage images from the collection of Georges Boustany
Quotes by Etel Adnan