| Lamia Maria Abillama | |
| Birth Place: | Lebanon |
| Alma Mater: | Sorbonne, Tufts University, International Center of Photography |
| Known For: | Photography |
Lamia Maria Abillama (born 1962) is a Lebanese photographer.[1]
Abillama was born in 1962 in Lebanon, to Lebanese-Brazilian parents.[2] She studied at the Sorbonne (now University of Paris) in Paris and Tufts University in Boston. She then practised as a lawyer.[3] After taking photography classes at the International Center of Photography in New York City, she began exhibiting her work as a photographer.[3]
Abillama's photo series Clashing Realities consists of portraits of Lebanese women wearing military uniforms, in their homes.[4] [5] [6] Abillama has said that "in asking a group of Lebanese women to put on combat uniforms as a symbol of the violence that has so affected their lives, my aim has been to indicate the extent to which they have been impacted by the decades of conflict."[7]
In 2020 she was included in the exhibition Lebanon Then and Now: Photography From 2006 to 2020 held at the Middle East Institute, Washington D.C.[8]
Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[9] and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.[10]