About
Ali Arkardy is a photographer and photojournalist from Khanaqin, Iraq, located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq near the Iranian border. A gradate of the Fine Arts Institution in Khanaqin, Ali has been working as a photographer since 2006 and currently is focusing on photo stories about Iraqis injured and disabled during war.
Ali’s photographs have been published in international and Iraq media and shown in more than a dozen exhibits in Iraq, Dubai, Georgia, and Germany. 2012 my story about a wounded soldier, the first prize on Iraq, and published in the cnn website and 2013 worked Subject for gettyimages abut 10 years after the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, His photo essay, “Daily Labor of Sulaimanyah, Iraq” appeared at the 2012 Festival for Georgia and was featured on the CNN International and PhotoAid web sites. In 2011, he was the bronze medial recipient at the Annual Festival in Hamburg, sponsored by the Arab Union of Photographers in Europe.
Ali also is a photography and an assistant