Eve Chayes Lyman

Bio
Eve Chayes Lyman is a photographer, graphic artist and activist whose photographs of Afghanistan have appeared in various shows and publications, nationally and internationally.

After September 11th, she felt compelled to devote her life to social change.  She was a co-founder of Afghans for Civil Society (ACS), a small Afghan-American organization based in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which is where most of her Afghan photographs were taken.

Afghanistan was the starting point of her career as a serious photographer.  Since then she has focused on areas as disparate as Central America and Boston’s own urban areas for the themes of her photography.

Eve has a deep conviction that “we are one world, that everything each of us does or touches, ultimately affects everyone else on this planet.”  Her website, The Eye of the Beholder, reflects her desire to reveal the beauty she finds in unexpected places.

Her work has been published in newspapers and magazines including Canada’s Sunday Globe and Mail, Harvard Magazine and Marie Claire.  Her work has been shown in the Boston and Denver area, and has been featured in exhibits sponsored by Art Without Borders, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge.

For more photographs of Afghanistan please go to http://theeyeofthebeholder.net