PHOTOGRAPHY
An ongoing documentary practice focused on human stories, identity, and displacement. Grounded in long term observation and a reflective approach, the work develops thoughtful visual narratives for books, exhibitions, and academic collaboration.
Book | Published 2026
Dreaming Shanghai follows the quiet rituals of daily life in China’s largest city, the search for food, the glow of the mobile screen, the fatigue of long working days, and the soft collapse into sleep. These street portraits catch small gestures in public places, showing how people carry private worlds while sharing the same cafés, markets, and trains.
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Genre, Documentary
Captured, 2023-2026
Location, Shanghai
Book | Published 2026
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Genre, Documentary
Captured, 2022-2026
Location, Bangkok, Thailand ​
Book | Published 2025
I was there, I saw him fighting, killing, destroying, demolishing, then building it again. I saw him dying and being born again, flying, battling, stabbing, crying, bleeding, and being born again once more. I watched him loading the gun and shooting. I kept wondering how he was capable of destroying humans, himself, and everything around him.
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Genre, Conceptual Documentary
Captured, 2014 - 2016
Location, Iraqi-Kurdistan
Event, Frontline, ISIS War​
Book | Published 2024
Hands of Refusal began in 2014 in the refugee camps of Iraqi Kurdistan and Syria, where survivors of ISIS brutality raised a hand to the camera and named what angered them most. Over the next decade, the project moved across borders and communities, gathering hundreds of portraits in which anger became testimony and quiet resistance. By 2025, it had grown into a book shaped by the voices and wounds of others. Each hand became a personal outcry and a shared gesture, turning anger into a language of refusal, a reminder that anger is not chaos but clarity, not destruction but a demand for change.
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Genre, Street Portrait
Captured | 2014-2024
Locations | Kurdistan, China, UK, Thailand​
Book | Published 2018
A living archive of two years spent in the shadow of the war between ISIS and Kurdish forces, this book moves through dust, silence, frontline smoke, and the dense geometry of refugee camps. Each image holds the weight of people suspended between survival and erasure, in a landscape marked by the psychological and spiritual toll of conflict.
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Genre, War Documentary
Captured, 2014 - 2016
Location, Iraqi-Kurdistan
Event, Frontline, ISIS War​
Book | Published 2023
This book returns to a time when photography was simple and honest, made by mothers, uncles, neighbours, and friends who never studied the craft. All the photographs come from my family album, taken in Kurdistan from the 1950s to the 2020s, over seventeen years.
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Genre, Portrait Collage
Captured, 1950 - 2023
Locations, Kurdistan, Germany, Iraq and Iran
Photos | 2000-2026
This section brings together a selection of portraits, street photographs, and documentary images captured in cities around the world. The work moves between spontaneous encounters and more considered moments, observing everyday life within different urban environments. Through people, streets, and fleeting situations, the photographs reflect the atmosphere, diversity, and rhythms of traditional and contemporary city life.​​​​
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Genre, Street, portrait & documentary
Captured, 2000-2026
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Photo-Essay | Published 2018
She was a woman of sharp mind and unyielding strength, a professor and a fierce feminist whose presence could feel distant, even formidable. Yet those who stepped close enough discovered another truth: behind the armour was a heart that gave freely, with quiet kindness and unshakable generosity.
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Genre, Documentary
Captured, 2018
Location, United Kingdom
Photos-Essay | Published 2020
Ismat grew up in a small village, where his life quietly intertwined with Tugba’s. Their love was simple and steady, built through shared moments and unspoken dreams. But family tradition, and the promise of wealth, pushed Ismat toward a marriage he did not choose.​​​​
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Genre, portrait & documentary
Captured, 2019
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Photo-Essay | Published 2012
She was a woman of sharp mind and unyielding strength, a professor and a fierce feminist whose presence could feel distant, even formidable. Yet those who stepped close enough discovered another truth: behind the armour was a heart that gave freely, with quiet kindness and unshakable generosity.
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Genre, Contemporary
Captured, 2011
Location, Antalya, Turkey
