Latif al-Ani, a well-known photographer, discovers the people and locations he photographed before the wars in various locations throughout Iraq.
Latif al-Ani, a well-known photographer who was born in Baghdad in 1932, is credited with founding Iraqi photography. His portfolio creates a unique visual archive of Iraq during its height between the 1950s and the 1970s as the official photographer for presidents and the Iraqi Petroleum Company.
His images show how diverse and varied a modern, cosmopolitan country is in harmony and with abundance. Al-Ani, however, stopped taking photos when Saddam Hussein gained control. Al-Ani travels across Iraq with his photos in search of the remains of his stunning nation after decades of conflict.
Source: Aljazeera
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