Announcing our 10th Photo Essay Asia Finalist in the Invisible Photographer Asia Awards 2013: KÜRŞAT BAYHAN, Away From Home.
Photo Essay: On The Road Of Revolution, by Kürşat Bayhan
Young Libyans holding kalashnikovs are on guard duty and the only light illuminating the night’s complete darkness are headlights. Checkpoints start from Tunisia – Libya border to Tripoli city.
Photo Essay: Stories behind the numbers – Bloody Sunday, by Kürşat Bayhan
Synopsis October 25th of 2009, there were bomb explosions in Bagdad – one at the Justice Department and the other at the city’s county council. 147 lives were lost and hundreds others were wounded. These were the most bloodiest attacks in Iraq since 2007. Newspapers referred to the explosions as “The Bloody Sunday”. Stories behind the numbers: daily reality for the victims of the Iraq War I met Abu Nasr on a narrow street in the Griad Seria district of central Baghdad. A year before, he had lost his fingers and left eye in a suicide attack targeting the Ministry …