Barat Ali Batoor

Barat Ali Batoor is a multi award-winning photographer. Batoor started photography in 2002 and launched his first solo exhibition in 2007. His photographs were exhibited in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia.

Batoor’s documentary film ‘Batoor: A Refugee Journey’ won an award for the ‘Best Australian Director’ at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the 2021 Walkley Documentary Award.

Batoor currently works as a Community Organiser with ASRC, freelance photographer and teaches photojournalism at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

He participated in “Lahore Artist Residency” by VASL in Lahore, Pakistan and was the 2009 recipient of a photography grant from New York’s Open Society Institute for the project “The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan”.

He is the winner of Nikon-Walkleys Photo of the Year 2013 award as well as a winner in the Photo Essay category. He was also awarded “Communication for Social Change Award” by the University of Queensland.

He was a speaker at the TEDxSydney in 2014.

His works have been published in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Stern, India Today, Risk Magazine, The Global Mail, The Daily Mail, The West Australian, Strategic Review and others.