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Born in Lebanon in 1987, Lara Zankoul graduated from the American
University of Beirut with a Masters in Economics. Zankoul was born
photographically in 2008. Driven by passion, she taught herself
photography and started an enriching journey in the artistic field.
During 2009, she completed her 365 project, a personal mission in which
she committed on taking a picture every day in a row for a year. She has
participated in several local and international collective exhibitions
such as the ‘Women’s Art Exhibition’ in Art Lounge Lebanon in 2011 and
the 3rd edition of the Festival Photomed in the South of France in 2013.
Part of the Shabab Ayyam incubator programme, she was an award
recipient at the 2011 Shabab Ayyam Photography Competition. In her solo
show in Ayyam Gallery in January 2013, she presented for the first time,
her cinematographic work, which was auctioned in April 2013 at
Christie’s Dubai.
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Zankoul’s practice of fine arts photography primarily appeared as a need
to escape the binding life of the cubicle during her first full-time
job. This need to evade reality was translated in her imagery: her
compositions are contemporary fairy tales, which explore the charm and
mystery of the human psyche. Whimsical and playful, they represent an
attempt to invent new worlds, to push against the boundaries of our
reality and escape the monotony of everyday life. The characters
inhabiting Zankoul’s work are anonymous and timeless, universal symbols
existing within a fantastical and surreal landscape.
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