She photographs the daily lives of girls and women in the Middle East and in the United States, including Syrian refugees.

She now teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and exhibits her work worldwide.

[4] Matar has made several series of photographs, including SHE, L'Enfant Femme, Unspoken Conversations, Women Coming of Age, A Girl and Her Room, Invisible Children, and Ordinary Lives.

[2] L'Enfant Femme depicts preteen girls living in the United States and the Middle East, and focuses on documenting the age between childhood and maturity.

[5] Mothers and daughters are photographed together and present a universal nature of womanhood in the series Unspoken Conversations.