Sebastian Meyer’s Profile

I Am Kurdistan By Sebastian Meyer: 10Nov; I Am Kurdistan A photographic essay on Iraqi Kurdistan’s post-conflict identity crisis The History: For half a century, Iraq’s Kurds have been victimized by their political leaders. From Abdul Karim Qasm ordering the indiscriminate bombing of Kurdish villages in 1961 to the mass-murder carried out during Saddam’s 1988 Anfal campaign, Iraqi Kurds have been constantly persecuted. But on December 30th, 2006 all that came to an end when Saddam Hussein, the Kurd’s...; Tags: Documentary, Identity, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Photography, Photojournalism

I started working as a photographer in 2004. Since then I have published my photographs in TIME, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Sunday Times Magazine amongst many other leading international newspapers and magazines.

I also shoot video and have made documentaries for Guardian Unlimited, Time.com, and PBS as well as shooting TV reports.

Since 2009 I have been based in Iraq where apart from doing my own reporting, I am setting up the first Iraqi photography agency, Metrography.

Please visit my website at www.sebmeyer.com