Barat Ali Batoor
Barat Ali Batoor is a professional freelancer photographer from Afghanistan. He started his professional career in 2002, and is a double Walkley-Award-winning photojournalist and reporter.
Barat Ali Batoor
- Name
- Barat Ali Batoor
- Birth Name
- Barat Ali
- Birthplace
- Hazaristan
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Born
- 1983 · Quetta.
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Barat Ali Batoor is a professional freelancer photographer from Afghanistan. He started his professional career in 2002, and is a double Walkley-Award-winning photojournalist and reporter.
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Key facts
• Name — Barat Ali Batoor • Other Names — Batoor • Birth Name — Barat Ali • Birthplace — Hazaristan • Occupation — Photographer • Years Active — 2002–present • Website — https: www.batoor.com/bio.html
Early life
Early life
Barat Ali Batoor was born in 1983 in a Hazara family.
Career
Career
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. He took part in the documentary photography project funded by the Open Society Institute. 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.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• June to October 2024: "Searching For Sanctuary: A Journey of Survival " - State Library Victoria, Melbourne; presented as part of the RISING: festival.
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Life and career
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1983
Barat Ali Batoor born at Quetta.
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- 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. 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. December 3, 2010.
- 5.Walkley Winner Barat Ali Batoor 2013.
- 6.Batoor's Story wins at Walkleys. News.
- 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.
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