Artist Biography
Barat Ali Batoor is a multi award-winning photographer who has exhibited in the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia. After starting photography in 2002 Bartoor launched his first solo exhibition in 2007 and in 2013 he won the Nikon-Walkley’s Photo of the Year and an award in the Photo Essay category.

 His works have been published in leading global newspapers and magazines including 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. 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’.

 Batoor’s public communication includes speaking at TEDxSydney in 2014 and that same year the University of Queensland awarded him their “Communication for Social Change Award” for his photo essay created from his experience as a refugee travelling by boat to Australia.   

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