Younes Mohammad
Based in: Erbil, Iraq
Biography
Younes Mohammad is Born in 1968 in Dohuk, Iraq. He’s a Kurdish freelance photographer mostly active on assignments for newspapers, magazines, etc.
He spent his life in Iran as a refugee from 1974-1998 and graduated with an MBA from the University of Tehran.
Photography was his lifelong passion but he had no chance to follow it while the war was still continuing during Saddam Hussein’s time.
In 2011 he quit his job and started his journey as a photographer. His work has been exhibited internationally, published widely in publications and received numerous awards.
He is currently based in Erbil, Iraq.
- Crystal Meth Crisis in Iraq
Middle East Images’ photographer, Younes Mohammad, covering the story of… - Younes Mohammad on the road with Iraq’s drug squad.
Covering Iraq in the throes of an addiction epidemic as… - Younes Mohammad Published in Taz Newspaper
Middle East Images photographer Younes Mohammadi published a story about… - Younes Mohammad published in The Washington Post
Middle East Images photographer Younes Mohamamd published in The Washington Post. - Younes Mohammad exhibiting at the Jakarta International Photography Festival in Indonesia
Younes Mohamamd is exhibiting his work on the Chaldoran –… - Younes Mohammad published in The Washington Post
Middle East Images photographer Younes Mohamamd published in The Washington… - Chaldoran
Throughout the history of the Middle East Kurdish people have… - Gomma Grant ,2021
Middle East Images photographer Younes Mohammad has won the Honorable… - UNICEF Photo of the Year Award 2021
UNICEF Germany annually awards “UNICEF Photo of the Year Award”… - Younes Mohammad
- Crystal Meth Crisis in IraqMiddle East Images’ photographer, Younes Mohammad, covering the story of…
- ChaldoranThroughout the history of the Middle East Kurdish people have…
- No Friend But The Mountains
In the 1990s after centuries of oppression, massacres, and genocide,… - In The Name of Religion
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and… - Years of Displacment
When we think of forced migration, the images of destroyed… - Open Wounds
“I start to work on a long-term project documenting the…
