From Hong Kong to Kurdistan with Swiss Photojournalist...

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From Hong Kong to Kurdistan with Swiss Photojournalist @dominicnahr

To see more of Dominic’s photographs, follow @dominicnahr on Instagram.

Dominic Nahr (@dominicnahr) has multiple passports, and no fixed residence. The 31-year-old photojournalist was born in Switzerland and grew up in Hong Kong, where his mother, a travel guide, and his father, a former fighter pilot, had made their home after meeting in Sri Lanka.

“I used to walk past the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong, running my hands along the building walls trying to sneak a peek inside,” he says. “I was too young to be allowed in then, but when I got older and was able to enter, my love and appreciation for photojournalism began.”

Dominic spent the last five years living in Kenya before relocating to his current base in the Kurdish enclave of northern Iraq. “The landscape is beautiful,” he says, describing the northern region that shares snow-covered mountain ranges with Turkey and Iran, and is now home to huge numbers of people fleeing warfare and persecution across the region.

He describes the harsh conditions for refugees from Syria and internally displaced people — known as IDPs — from central Iraq, saying, “It gets very cold here, below zero at times, which makes it very hard for the over 800,000 IDPs during the cold winter months.” But he adds, “Kurdistan is a very special place. The Kurds themselves are proud people and I feel safe amongst them.”

by via Instagram Blog