I am Jamal Penjweny a Kurdish Photographer& Documentary Filmmaker.
I was born 1981 in Iraqi Kurdistan. and I am graduate in ( The photography institute in London, Australia and NY), also some of my photos published on the tow program books in same institute).
Major news agencies and publishing companies have published my work such as: Al-Sharql Awsat , Institute for War and Peace Reporting (
IWPR), New York Times، Bloomberg, Reuters, Polaris images , Zuma press ، The Guardian Newspaper, Human Rights Watch, Chicago Tribune,
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA-
SAFOTO, Financial Times, Sipa Press, jeune afrique magazine, driknews agency, World News Network, the washington Post,
UNDP and Al Arabiya channel etc.
Description of My Work
Although I want no part of war, war leaves its mark on me and I have come to consider both what is happy and sad in our lives by its measure. Thus, in my mother’s mind, I was born ‘when the Iran-Iraq war started’, and my grandfather would recall he got engaged ‘during World War I ’. It seems that war has become part of our lives. Our children do not know of peace and as a result grow up playing war. In Slemani, a child made a picture of a passenger plane which had bombs falling from it. Above the picture he had written ’I can travel’. It made me wonder. I asked him, "why is your passenger plane dropping bombs?’ His answer was,’ Why? Is there a plane which does not throw bombs?!’ Through my photos I try to erase the idea of war.
