Lara Zankoul
About
Lara Zankoul is a Lebanese multidisciplinary visual artist and self-taught photographer born in Beirut in 1987. After earning a degree in economics, she began her photography career around 2008, initially as a means of self-expression and escape from her job as an economics researcher and the challenges of living in a politically unstable country. She rose to prominence with her 2013 series *The Unseen*, featuring surreal, dreamlike images created with hand-crafted sets, soft pastel colors, and no digital manipulation, exploring themes of human emotions, the subconscious, psychology, and invisible concepts related to the soul.
Surrealism – dreamlike conceptual photography with hand-crafted sets, soft pastel colors, and themes of human psyche and subconscious
Selected Exhibitions
- Synopsis (first solo, Beirut, age 23)
- Depths (solo, Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, 2013)
- Upon Walls (solo, Sweden, 2022)
- Shabab Ayyam Photography (group, Dubai, 2011)
- Woman in Contemporary Art (group, Art Lounge, Beirut, 2011)
- Guy Hepner Gallery (New York)
- Heist Gallery (London)
Awards
- Hasselblad Masters Finalist (2021)
- Broncolor GenNext Winner (2016)
- LensCulture Emerging Talent (2014)
- Shabab Ayyam Competition (2011)