Gaylan Nazhad is a Kurdish British artist working across photography and documentary film, exploring identity, displacement, and cultural and social interaction.

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He began his career in 1992 as a television presenter in South Kurdistan, later moving into theatre directing before developing a body of documentary films and long term photographic projects.

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After graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2009, he went on to lecture internationally, teaching at universities across the Middle East and China.