Photographer
Randa Mirza is a visual artist and photographer. Her practice is often related to identity with a focus on gender studies and postcolonial discourses.
Lebanese
A community of swimmers, composed mainly of men, indulge in a hobby in which feat competes with exhibitionism. Randa Mirza’s photographs emphasis an exaggerated display of machismo that defines homosocial relations in patriarchal societies.
Since the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1990, Beirut has been striving, to regain its glamour and splendor through the efforts of reconstruction, in the aim of reconstituting the old myth of a city commonly referred to as the Paris or Switzerland of the Middle East.