Photo-eye reviews Rania Matar’s new portfolio, La Femme-Enfant, a work that deals again with times of transition in a girl’s life. Where A Girl and Her Room captures teenage girls and the spaces that display their unique identities, this portfolio portrays a group of younger girls, contemplating the transitional age between childhood and adulthood.

As Photo-eye writes, “Some are vulnerable, others defiant, yet all portray the uniqueness of their age, the in between years, the age of transition from child to young adult.”

Today marks the two year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, the devastation of which is still evident. According to the International Organization for Migration, approximately 634,000 people remain living in displacement camps.

For some insight into this issue, head over the La Lettre de la Photographie to read Sara Rosen’s latest review of Wyatt Gallery‘s Tent Life: Haiti, where she writes:

“Gallery’s photographs are a testament to . . . the beauty of the human spirit that glows from within. His photographs show us that despite the worst possible circumstances, the people of Haiti have something so many of us lack: the commitment to family, to community, to rising above. Can’t hold us down, not by the forces of Man nor Nature.

The photographs are at quietly shocking, such beautifully composed images of honor and pride in the face of total devastation.”

Fifty percent of all proceeds from the purchase of the book goes toward one of three charities: The Global Syndicate, Healing Haiti, and J/P HRO.

The style/art/fashion blog took a shine to CYJO’s project, which explores unity and dissonance in Korean identity. Her work is up at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, part of “Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter,” through Oct. 2012. Don’t miss this thought-provoking show if you’re in the D.C. area.

Remember what your room looked like when you were 15?

Drop in on the Foster Gallery at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, MA, where Rania Matar‘s “A Girl and Her Room” is on display from January 9 – February 17, 2012. Matar spent several years photographing teenage girls in their most private spaces – their bedrooms – and these revealing images are the result. Some rooms are strewn with clothes, nail polish, and makeup, photographs cluttering the walls, while others are neat as a pin. We’re not telling what ours looked like…

Umbrage is publishing A Girl and Her Room in Spring 2012.