Sunday, 29 June 2008

Barat ALi Batoor Photographer




Bio

Barat Ali Batoor was born in Quetta, Pakistan in 1983, in a family that was driven out of Afghanistan during civil war of 1890's when most of his people were massaacred. He returned to his ancestral country for first time after September 11, 2001 when the Taliban regime was still in Kandahar. After visiting the devastation and destruction of 23 years of war, he decided to work for his country and to draw the world attention to the problems facing the country and to the plight of the people. He chose photography as his medium of expression. Through his photographs, he would like to take people to see the realities of lives of the people who want their stories to be heard and seen.
His works are published in magazines, news papers and catalogues such as India Today, Outlook Afghanistan and Afghan Scene etc.





















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