Barat Ali Batoor | |
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Born | Barat Ali 29 May Quetta |
Other names | Batoor |
Occupation | Photographer |
Years active | 2002–present |
Website |
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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]
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]
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Barat Ali Batoor | |
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Born | Barat Ali 29 May Quetta |
Other names | Batoor |
Occupation | Photographer |
Years active | 2002–present |
Website |
www |
Part of a series on |
Hazaras |
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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]
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]
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