Press and Reviews


The Eye of Photography, February  1st, 2020    Charleroi: Diana Matar: My America 

The Guardian, Maaza Mengiste January 29th, 2020From Homer to Alexievich: top 10 books about the human cost of war. Diana Matar Evidence. 

New City Art, Alisa Swindell, March 27th, 2018Trauma In The Longue Durée: A Review of “Traversing the Past” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography

Hyperallergic, Elena Goukassian, February 28, 2018. A Compelling New Book Focuses on Work by 33 Women Photographers. 

The Chicago Tribune, Laurie Waxman, January 31st 2018. 'Traversing the Past' an uneven but powerful look at history.

The Chicago Maroon, Zoe Bean, January 22nd 2018. MoCP Exhibit Presents Three Takes on Cultural Identity

Time Out Chicago,  January 2018 Traversing the Past: Adam Golfer, Diana Matar, Hrvoje Slovenc

Photomonitor, Anna McVay  Nov 2017  Firecrackers Female Photographers Now

PhotoDistict News, Sept 26 2017  Photo of the Day, Evidence 5 Benghazi Libya 2012 Diana Matar 

London Photo Diary, Celine Bodin. June 5 2016  Review: Diana Matar @ Purdy Hicks Gallery

Photomonitor, Simon Bocock. June 1  2016 Photo London 2016 Reviewed

The Economist 1843 Magazine, Felix Bazalgette, May 26 2016  Exposing Libya's Dark Past. Diana Matar at Purdy Hicks Gallery. 

Financial Times, Horatia Herrod, May 13, 2016, Snapshot, Diana Matar at Purdy Hicks, London. 

Lensculture, May 2016 , Evidence by Diana Matar

Black and White Magazine. George Slade. April 8th 2016. Evidence by Diana Matar  

L'Oeil, W. M. Hunt. April 4, 2016. The Unseen Eye Looks at FotoFest 2016. 

The New Arab, January 15, 2016. The Arab World Mirrored in Photography. 

L'HUMANITÉ, Magali Jauffret.  January 5 2016Les photographes du monde arabe accueillis à Paris

Culture Box.  December 5th, 2015. Monde arabe et photographie à Paris : quelques images de la première biennale.

L’Eclectique. Sarah Anouar,  November 12 2015. La première Biennale des photographes du monde arabe contemporain « démonte » les clichés.

RFI Siegfried Forster. November 11 2015.  Le monde arabe pris en photo par une Biennale pionnière

Les Tempes. Caroline Stevan. November 27 2015. Une biennale de photographie pour le monde arabe

Wall Street Journal. Tobias Grey.  November 6th 2015, Middle East Photography gets a Biennale. 

Literate Lens, Sarah Coleman. October 12, 2015. Evidence by Diana Matar at Rick Wester Fine Art. 

Collector Daily, Loring Knoblach. October 6 2015. Diana Matar Evidence at Rick Wester 

L'Oeil, September 15 2015. New York: Evidence by Diana Matar. 

PhotoDot, July 2015, Cover Portfolio Evidence by Diana Matar 

Vice Magazine Volume 13, No 5. June 2015, Literary: Evidence, Diana Matar 

PhotoEye, Jon Evans. 16 June 2015. Evidence Diana Matar Book of the Week, Pick by Jon Evans, Museum of Fine Arts Houston. 

Leica Foto International, May 2015, Angenda, Books: Diana Matar Evidence. 

Freize Magazine, Sara Knelman. April 20 2015. Conflict Time Photography. 

WDR 3. April 2015, Das Danach des Krieges. With Radio Show. 

Firecracker. March 2015, Evidence Diana Matar. 

ArtsLife, Laura Vezzo. March 2015. Conflict Time Photography Tate Modern riflette sulla guerra e i suoi effetti. 

Emaho Magazine, Manik Katyal. March 2015. Diana Matar: Photography six years of Political Disappearance. 

fotoMAGAZIN, Manfred Zolner. March 2015. Evidence, Diana Matar. 

Creative Review, March 2015, IPAd edition. Hi-Res Feature: Evidence, Photographer Diana Matar explores political disappearance. 

Kaliedascope Magazine, Anjalie Mandalia, February 2015. About Time 

ST Art Magazine, Hettie O'Brian. January 2015. Landscape and Time.

L'Oeil 16, Jonas Cuenin. 16 January 2015, Londres : Conflict, Time, Photography : les images d’après la guerre.

Resource Magazine, Mark Go. 5 January 2015. Best Photography Books of 2015. 

Tondo, Nathalie Latham. December 2014. Best Books. Diana Matar Evidence. 

Dirty Old Books, Cheryl Newman. 28 December 2014. My Favorite Photobooks of 2014. 

New Yorker, Teju Cole. 23 December 2014. Best Books of 2014

The Telegraph, Cheryl Newmann. 22 December 2014. My Favorite Photobooks of 2014

National Public Radio WNYC Colin Dywer and Martha Ann Overland. 22 December 2014. Flipping Ahead - Book News. Diana Matar's Evidence. 

De Groene Amsterdammer. December 2014. Moderne tijden in Tate Modern en het Rijksmuseum. 

Cultframe Arti Visivi, Claudia Colia, December 2014. Conflict, Time, Photography. Una mostra alla Tate Modern di Londra

Felix Online, Fred Fyles, December 2014. An Excavation of the Bloody Horrors of Warfare

Photobookstore Magazine, Yumi Goto. 23 December 2014. Yumi Goto's Favorite Photobooks of 2014.  

The Independent, Annalee Mather. 22 December 2014. Books of the Year 2014: Best Photography Books. 

Peace Direct, Jasmine Mitchell. December 2014. Conflict Time and Photography. 

Firecracker, December 2014, Shoair Mavlian. Women Photographers in Conflict Time Photography. 

Artefact Magazine, Sebastian Moss. 1 December 2014, Exhibitions, Conflict Time Photography. 

El Confidencial, Barabara Celis Londres. November 2014. Fotografia de Guerra Sin Heroes ni Sangre.  

BBC World Service, 29 November 2014, Newshour Interview with Razia Iqbal, Diana Matar Photographing Libya's Disappeared. 

Time Out London, Freire Barnes. 28 November 2014. Conflict, Time, Photography

The Economist, 1843 Magazine, Simon Willis. 28 November 2014. War's Half Life at Tate Modern. 

The Guardian, Hannah Ellis Peterson. 25 November 2014. Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern sets timestamp on tragedy.

Disphotic, Lewis Bush. 24 November 2014. REVIEW – EVIDENCE BY DIANA MATAR

The Guardian, Sean O'Hagan. 12 November 2014 'The cruelty is in everything': photographing the dead and the disappeared of Gaddafi's Libya.

The Culture Trip, Ludy Andia, November 2014. Diana Matar, The Aesthetics of Loss. 

Tate Etc Issue 32. Ipad Edition. Autumn 2014. Conflict Time Photography. 

Middle East Monitor, Amelia Smith. 22 October 2014 Photographer Diana Matar on Libya, her father-in-law's disappearance and portraying absence in her work.

New Yorker PhotoBooth. Elissa Curtis. March 26, 2013 Return to Libya One Families Journey. PhotoBooth































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