Carine Chelhot Lemyre
PhD. Writer and historian of visual culture based in Beirut. She holds a doctorate in art history from the University of St Andrews (2023).
- Teacher-researcher in the ARC: Photography and Visual Formats in Lebanon in the 19th Century
Writer and historian of visual culture based in Beirut. She holds a doctorate in art history from the University of St Andrews (2023).
Her studies have been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canada Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF), as well as by several travel grants from the Society for the Study of French History (SSHF) and the Society for French Studies (SSFH) in the United Kingdom, among others. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in philosophy from the American University of Beirut (AUB) (2016), and a master’s degree in art history from the University of Toronto, supported by the W. Bernard Herman art scholarship (2017).
Her doctoral research explored the works and visual technologies used by the 19th-century photography studio Maison Bonfils (1867-1914), based in Beirut, Lebanon, and founded by the French photographer Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) and his wife Marie-Lydie Cabanis (1837-1918).
Her broader research interests include visual materials such as photography and painting, and their manifestation through the relationships between travel, trade and European colonialism in the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
She currently teaches at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in Beirut and is working on a retrospective monograph on the Lebanese artist Jamil Molaeb (born 1948), due to be published by Kaph Books in autumn 2024.