Fire and broken glass spoke to me more than well-articulated slogans.
كان حديث النار والزجاج المهشم أقرب لمسامعي من الشعارات الرنانة.
Some people said that my images don’t represent us.
يقول البعض أن صوري لا تمثلنا نحن اللبنانيين.
Lebanon is so contrasted that I still don’t know what "us" is.
لبنان متناقض جداً بحيث لا أقدر على تحديد ماهية "نحن" المقصودة.
It makes me think of the man I photographed with my flash, because he was jerking off in front of my car window while looking at me.
يذكّرني ذلك بالرجل الذي صوّرته بفلاش كاميرتي، لأنه كان يستمني بينما يحدّق فيّ عبر زجاج سيارتي.
Myriam Boulos was born in 1992 in Lebanon. At the age of 16 she started to use her camera to question Beirut, its people, and her place among them. She graduated with a master degree in photography from Alba in 2015. Myriam took part in both national and international collective exhibitions, including “Infinite Identities” (Amsterdam), 3ème Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe (Paris), and “C’est Beyrouth” (Paris). Today she uses photography to explore, defy and resist society. In 2021 she was awarded the Grand Prix ISEM and she joined Magnum.
Myriam Boulos was born in 1992 in Lebanon. At the age of 16 she started to use her camera to question Beirut, its people, and her place among them. She graduated with a master degree in photography from Alba in 2015. Myriam took part in both national and international collective exhibitions, including “Infinite Identities” (Amsterdam), 3ème Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe (Paris), and “C’est Beyrouth” (Paris). Today she uses photography to explore, defy and resist society. In 2021 she was awarded the Grand Prix ISEM and she joined Magnum.