Myriam Abdelaziz is a French/American photographer born in Cairo, Egypt.
She received a BA in Political Science; a Master in Journalism and a MBA specialized in International Marketing. Her career started in the corporate marketing world in which she worked for seven years before deciding to change gear and pursue a profession in Photography, her long lifetime passion.
Myriam graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2006 and has been based in New York City since.
She 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.
In 2011, she joined the female Middle Eastern photographer collective ‘RAWIYA’ (‘She who tells a story’)
Myriam’s work tells the stories of its participants. Her inquiry into the tales of people takes her around the globe searching for narratives that overcome physical and cultural barriers and often reveal what we have in common: glimpses of solitude, hope, insecurity, dignity. Her work captures moments where something inner is revealed.
Her photographs have been published in prestigious magazines 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.
“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.”
A series of portraits — blown out, overexposed, dusty — that powerfully convey the harsh conditions faced by child laborers in the quarries of Menya, Egypt.
