Barat Ali Batoor
# Barat Ali Batoor

Barat Ali Batoor (Persian: برات علی باتور) is a professional freelancer photographer from Afghanistan. He started his professional career in 2002.

## Early life and photography

Barat Ali Batoor was born in 1983, to a family Hazara in Afghanistan. He took part in the documentary photography project funded by the Open Society Institute. A photograph titled 'The First Day at Sea' he took of a boat journey to Australia won the prestigious 2013 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year.

