Photographer Rania Matar offers a window on the world during quarantine
Photographer Rania Matar offers a window on the world during quarantine
The Lebanese-American photographer documents human stories of shared confinement in a forthcoming exhibition in Florida
Rania Matar, Image courtesy of the Artist
Barely two weeks after the Covid-19 pandemic emerged, Lebanese-born American photographer Rania Matar began contemplating how this new, universal human reality might be viewed through a photographic lens. The resulting series,
On Either Side of the Window: Portraits During Covid-19, will be exhibited at Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Florida from 16 January.
What began as a series of the artist’s friends at home soon became a community-wide project in which Matar captured portraits of more than 100 people in Massachusetts who agreed to pose for her. She photographed figures behind doors and windows, capturing the intimacy, beauty, anxiety and rhythm of daily life in qua
SIUE confers degrees to 1,100 Friday
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Speakers for the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 2020 virtual fall commencement exercises were, from left, top row, Cassidy Bruns, Paulina Fuhrmann and Matthew Gregor; bottom row, Caitlin Phelan, Ashley Spain and Laura Tupper.
EDWARDSVILLE Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Chancellor Randy Pembrook conferred degrees upon 1,103 graduates today at the 2020 virtual fall commencement exercises.
“You represent a wide array of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and you’ve made SIUE a stronger institution,” Pembrook said. “Thanks for making SIUE a better learning environment based on your ideas and efforts.
“As you move from being students to alumni, you also become official SIUE ambassadors. Because of your excellent preparation, we are confident that you will make an incredible difference and inspire those you meet,” he said. “Through you, we achieve our mission to shape