Meet the Author

Carine Chelhot Lemyre
Carine Chelhot Lemyre is a writer and historian of visual culture based in Beirut, Lebanon, holding a PhD in Art History from the University of St Andrews (2023). Her doctoral research explored the works and visual technologies employed by the nineteenth-century photography studio La Maison Bonfils (1867-1914), based in Beirut, Lebanon, and established by the French photographer Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) and his wife, Marie-Lydie Cabanis (1837-1918). Her broader research interests include the study of visual materials such as photography and painting and their manifestation through the relationships between travel, commerce, and colonialism in the Ottoman Empire during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lemyre’s studies were supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF), as well as several travel grants from the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH) and the Society for French Studies (SSFH), among others. She holds a BA in Studio Art with a minor in Philosophy from the American University of Beirut (2016), and an MA in Art History from the University of Toronto, supported by the W. Bernard Herman Scholarship in Art (2017). Currently, she is teaching at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in Beirut.