In the world of fashion and portraiture, 2017 saw a departure from the "over-edited" look. , who was then on the verge of his historic Vogue cover, began gaining massive traction for his portrayal of Black identity through a soft, utopic lens.
Thoughts On Being A Good Photographer From Souvid Datta Incident
Matar’s 2017 series "A Girl and Her Room" won the LensCulture Portrait Award. By photographing teenage girls in their bedrooms across Boston and Beirut, she revealed the universal chaos of adolescence versus the specific trauma of Middle Eastern conflict. Her use of natural window light became a tutorial standard on YouTube in 2017.
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