Barat Ali Batoor

Barat Ali Batoor
Born
Barat Ali

29 May (2025-05-29)
Quetta
Other namesBatoor
OccupationPhotographer
Years active2002–present
Websitewww.batoor.com/bio.html
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Barat Ali Batoor (Persian: برات علی باتور) is a professional freelancer photographer from Afghanistan. He started his professional career in 2002,[1] and is a double Walkley-Award-winning photojournalist and reporter.[2]

Early life and photography

Barat Ali Batoor was born in 1983, to a family Hazara in Afghanistan.

After publishing a piece in the Washington Post exposing the trade of underage prostitution in his homeland of Afghanistan, Batoor became the target of death threats and was forced to flee his country.[3]

He took part in the documentary photography project funded by the Open Society Institute.[4] A photograph titled 'The First Day at Sea' he took of a boat journey to Australia won the prestigious 2013 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year.[5][6]

Exhibitions

See also

References

  1. ^ Barat Ali Batoor
  2. ^ https://2024.rising.melbourne/program/barat-ali-batoor, Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  3. ^ https://2024.rising.melbourne/program/barat-ali-batoor, Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  4. ^ msk, March 12, 2012 (December 3, 2010). "Come out of the shade. The photographers from Central Asia and Southern Caucasus are invited to participate in "Documentary photography" – Ferghana Information agency, Moscow". Enews.fergananews.com. Retrieved March 12, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Walkley Winner Barat Ali Batoor 2013". Archived from the original on May 24, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  6. ^ "Batoor's Story wins at Walkleys". News. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  7. ^ https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/sanctuary, Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  8. ^ https://2024.rising.melbourne/program/barat-ali-batoor, Retrieved 2024-06-15.