Life As Constructed by Female Photographers in the Middle East

The Week has a preview up of a new exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, featuring contemporary work from women in the Arab world. Some of the shots are lovely in their mundanity (women in hijabs riding the subway, a Lebanese girl in her bedroom staring out the window) and others are more obviously political, like Lalla Assia Essaydi’s portrait of a woman lying on her back, which is constructed entirely out of glimmering bullet casings. Check them out here.

Image © Boushra Almutawakel. Courtesy of the artist and the East Wing Contemporary Gallery of the Boston MFA.