Galerie Janine Rubeiz is proud to present the award-winning photography series A Girl and Her Room, by lebanese photographer Rania Matar, from 11 to 28 April 2012.

This series features intimate photographic portraits of teenage girls in their most personal space, their bedroom.

"I initially started this work focusing on teenage girls in the United States and eventually expanded the project to include girls from the two worlds am most familiar with, the two worlds experienced myself as a teen and a young twenty-year old: the United States and the Middle East. This is how this project became very personal to me. I became fascinated with the similar issues girls at that age face, regardless of culture, religion, and background, as they learn to deal with all the pressures that arise as they become consciously aware of the surrounding world, wherever this may be. Being with these young women in the privacy of their worlds gave me a unique peek into their private lives and their real selves. They sensed that I was not judging them and became active participants in the project.

The beauty and strength, the aspirations and dreams of these young women are deeply moving. I have tried to be the invisible mirror of those qualities. My deepest hope for this project is that they all find their own path through life to achieve the fullness of their promise.

Rania Matar