Yumna In Focus

Spring, 2019

The young photographer-artist becomes the first Muslim woman to appear nude in Playboy—on her own terms and through her own lens. Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario explores the significance of Yumna Al-Arashi’s workFor 65 years, the contours of women’s bodies have been splashed across the pages of PLAYBOY. As a little girl, I remember stealing away with my older sisters to my uncle’s top-floor apartment in our family-run hair salon to stare at the glossy images of naked women...