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Photographer • Beirut, Lebanon

Lara Zankoul is a Lebanese fine art photographer and visual artist known for her dreamlike, conceptual imagery and carefully constructed visual worlds. Blending reality with imagination, her work explores themes of identity, memory, human relationships and transformation through surreal settings, symbolic details and a distinctive use of colour and composition. Alongside her fine art practice, Zankoul has worked extensively within fashion and editorial photography, with commissions and features for international publications including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Her ability to move between fine art and fashion has become an important part of her visual language, resulting in images that feel cinematic, poetic and unmistakably her own.

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    Featured artwork

    A carefully curated selection of artworks chosen by The Photo Gallery to highlight Lara Zankoul’s most distinctive expressions. Each piece is selected for its visual impact, craftsmanship and ability to stand the test of time.

    A woman in a pale dress suspended above a patterned floor beneath a floating yellow sphere, In Orbit by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    In Orbit by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a table with books and a lit candle.
    Detail of a woman in a pale dress suspended beneath a yellow sphere between two sunlit windows, In Orbit by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    In Orbit

    5,900.00 kr
    A woman floating horizontally in pale fabric beneath a golden waterline and orange sky, Pearl 5 by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Pearl 5 by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall above a carved bench draped with pale fabric.
    Detail of a floating woman with one arm raised and pale fabric billowing underwater, Pearl 5 by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Pearl 5

    From 14,700.00 kr
    Gold-coloured lips with a hanging golden droplet against a dark face and background, Rare words by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Rare words by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a black wooden armchair.
    Close-up of gold-coloured lips and a hanging golden droplet against a dark face, Rare words by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Rare words

    From 14,700.00 kr
    Figures in pale and green dresses floating beneath a golden waterline, The dance of life by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    The dance of life by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a table with books and a lit candle.
    Detail of floating figures in pale and green dresses beneath a golden waterline, The dance of life by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    The dance of life

    From 14,700.00 kr
    Two figures in pale and red fabric floating beneath a golden waterline and dark sky, Turbulence by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Turbulence by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall above low benches beside a wall tap.
    Detail of a woman floating in red fabric with one hand raised beneath a golden waterline, Turbulence by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Turbulence

    From 14,700.00 kr

    Discover the world of Lara Zankoul

    The pictures look impossible and none of them are retouched. Lara Zankoul builds full-size sets around a water tank so that the surface of the water cuts each image in half, dry above and submerged below, and then photographs the whole thing in one go. The series that made her name took four months to build and two days to shoot.

    She studied economics and worked in an office before buying a camera at twenty-one and teaching herself. Water runs through everything she does, standing in for whatever a person keeps below the surface. She lives and works in Beirut.

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    Gold-coloured lips with a hanging golden droplet against a dark face and background, Rare words by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Rare words by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a black wooden armchair.
    Close-up of gold-coloured lips and a hanging golden droplet against a dark face, Rare words by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Rare words

    From 14,700.00 kr
    Two figures in pale and red fabric floating beneath a golden waterline and dark sky, Turbulence by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Turbulence by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall above low benches beside a wall tap.
    Detail of a woman floating in red fabric with one hand raised beneath a golden waterline, Turbulence by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Turbulence

    From 14,700.00 kr
    Figures in red, purple and pale flowing fabric seen through rippling blue water, Impressions 3 by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Impressions 3 by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall above stacks of books on the floor.
    Detail of floating figures in red, purple and pale fabric distorted by rippling water, Impressions 3 by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Impressions 3

    From 19,500.00 kr
    A woman in a yellow dress underwater in a half-flooded pale green room beneath a tilted chandelier, The Noone by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    The Noone by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall above a dark table with a sculptural candleholder.
    Detail of a woman in yellow fabric underwater beneath two framed paintings and a tilted chandelier, The Noone by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    The Noone

    5,900.00 kr
    Two gold-coloured hands and forearms, one hand holding the opposite wrist against black, Your Touch by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Your Touch by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall above low benches beside a wall tap.
    Detail of gold-coloured hands, with one hand clasping the opposite wrist against a black background, Your Touch by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Your Touch

    From 14,700.00 kr
    Two figures holding hands amid pale floating fabric in blue water, Genesis 1 by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Genesis 1 by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a low table displaying a sculpture.
    Detail of two figures clasping hands with pale fabric billowing around them in blue water, Genesis 1 by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Genesis 1

    From 19,500.00 kr
    A woman in a flowing green dress floating beneath a golden waterline beside pale fabric, The dance of life 2 by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    The dance of life 2 by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a low table displaying a sculpture.
    Detail of a woman in a flowing green dress with bent knees and an upturned face underwater, The dance of life 2 by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    The dance of life 2

    From 14,700.00 kr
    A woman floating horizontally in pale fabric beneath a golden waterline and orange sky, Pearl 5 by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Pearl 5 by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall above a carved bench draped with pale fabric.
    Detail of a floating woman with one arm raised and pale fabric billowing underwater, Pearl 5 by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Pearl 5

    From 14,700.00 kr
    A woman curled underwater amid flowing red fabric and bubbles beneath a golden surface, Pearl 6 by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Pearl 6 by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a metal trolley holding an open book.
    Detail of a woman curled underwater with knees raised amid red fabric and bubbles, Pearl 6 by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Pearl 6

    From 14,700.00 kr
    A woman in flowing red fabric underwater beneath a splashing surface and dark cloudy sky, Absurd silence by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Absurd silence by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a table with books and a lit candle.
    Detail of a woman reaching upward through bubbles beneath a splashing waterline, with flowing red fabric, Absurd silence by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Absurd silence

    From 14,700.00 kr
    A woman in a red dress and long red gloves underwater with bubbles rising above her face, Pearl 1 by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    Pearl 1 by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a table with books and a lit candle.
    Detail of a woman in a red dress and long gloves with bubbles above her face underwater, Pearl 1 by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    Pearl 1

    From 14,700.00 kr
    Figures in pale and green dresses floating beneath a golden waterline, The dance of life by Lara Zankoul, with a white border.
    The dance of life by Lara Zankoul in a black frame on a grey wall beside a table with books and a lit candle.
    Detail of floating figures in pale and green dresses beneath a golden waterline, The dance of life by Lara Zankoul.
    Lara Zankoul

    The dance of life

    From 14,700.00 kr