Myriam Abdelaziz

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Location:

Brooklyn, NY, United States

LensCulture Awards:

Emerging Talent Awards 2014, Winner

Agencies:

Redux Pictures

ArabianEye

Plainpicture

Getty Images

Schools Attended:

International Center of Photografphy

Photo Associations & Memberships:

Rawiya Collective

About Myriam Abdelaziz

Myriam Abdelaziz is a French/American photographer born in Cairo, Egypt.
She graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2006 and has been based in New York City since.
Myriam is a winner of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward prize, the Lens Culture Emerging Talent prize and American Photography #24, as well as a finalist of La Bourse du Talent and PhotoEspana.
Her photographs have been published inmagazines such as American Photography, Fortune Magazine, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Smithsonian, Le Monde, Liberation, Courrier International, Marie-Claire, Eyemazing and the British Journal of Photography among many others as well as featured in various solo and group exhibitions in Europe, the Middle East and the USA, including the Arab Photography Biennale at the Arab Institute of Paris.They are also included in the private collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Agence Française de Développement and the Southeast Museum of Photography.

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Emerging Talent Awards 2014
Portrait of Egypt: Going South Along the Nile

Myriam Abdelaziz

“In Egypt, where my blood is from, I traveled south… Going south I met the sun I was looking for and the people filled with it… every place I went felt timeless, while I knew it could be the last time I might see it.”
Menya’s Kids

Myriam Abdelaziz

A series of portraits — blown out, overexposed, dusty — that powerfully convey the harsh conditions faced by child laborers in the quarries of Menya, Egypt.

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