Lizzie Crocker explores the work of photographer Rania Matar:
[Matar] shifted her focus to photographing girls individually in their bedrooms, noting how each girl was an expansion of her space. She began seeking out girls from different backgrounds, both in the U.S. and in Lebanon, where Matar grew up and had previously photographed women in refugee camps. "I became fascinated with the similarities of issues girls at that age face regardless of culture, religion, and background," she says. "I was discovering a person on the cusp of becoming an adult, but desperately holding on to the child she barely outgrew, a person on the edge of two worlds and trying to adjust to the person she is turning into."
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