Chris De Bruyn Photography: Recently Added Galleries and Collections

Newroz

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:41:06 GMT

]]>Celebrating Kurdish New Year

Videos

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:55:50 GMT

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Bazaar

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:57:25 GMT

]]>A series of shots taken in markets in Northern Iraq.

Here and there

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:28:04 GMT

]]>A selection of some of my most eye-catching images.

Cockfighting

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:20:04 GMT

]]>Images of a cock fight in Sulaimani, Iraq.

Amar Baysagalan Monastery

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:54:52 GMT

]]>One of the few monasteries in Mongolia to survive destruction from the Soviets.

Eagle Hunters

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:47:57 GMT

]]>A selection of photos form the 2009 Eagle Festival in Olgii, Western Mongolia.

Winter slaughter- Mongolian meat

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:13:02 GMT

]]>A photo essay taken in 2009 on a Mongolian family's slaughtering of an ox. Many Mongolians in the countryside kill a large animal in the winter and live off of the meet for up to two months.

Land mines and dead bodies- Construction in Iraq

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:53:15 GMT

]]>I went to a construction site to document that a university checked for land mines and a bulldozer unearthed remains of an Iraqi soldier.

Hasankeyf- damming the past.

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:15:19 GMT

]]>A photo essay taken in the small town of Hasankeyf in Eastern Turkey. The Turkish government is planning a controversial hydroelectricity project which would submerge much of the historic cave-filled town but generate much needed electricity.

Accupuncture in Inner Mongolia

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:29:50 GMT

]]>Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia.

Day of Rage: Sulaimani

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:48:21 GMT

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The Red Museum

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:06:19 GMT

]]>Amnasuraka, the Red Museum was a torture prison in Sulaimani for many years during the Saddam regime. Thousands of dissidents were held here against their will and many were tortured and executed...

constructing kurdistan

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:20:01 GMT

]]>Kurds are sometimes referred to as the largest stateless people in the Middle East, and some of the region’s most bloody and long-running conflicts stem from Kurdish efforts to create a national community and a Kurdish territorial state. But although these efforts have dramatically changed the political and cultural status of Kurds in and beyond the Middle East, as of the early 21st century there was still no independent, internationally recognized state called Kurdistan.

This exhibit from the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq thus illustrates a political project as much as a place on a map and the people who inhabit it. Almost 4 million people live in the three provinces of Iraq that make up the autonomous zone governed since 1991 by the Kurdistan Regional Government. The photos in this exhibit suggest some of the many ways in which the people living in this area have imagined, celebrated, commemorated, negotiated, and fought to build a national community and a territorial state in the midst of warfare, massive dislocation, internal differences and strife, and many social hardships.

Nicaragua and the Caribbean

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:33:42 GMT

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Southern Africa

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:23:06 GMT

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Iraqi Kurdistan

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:12:33 GMT

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China

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:40:31 GMT

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Mongolia- an empire's legacy

debruyn.chris@gmail.com (Chris De Bruyn Photography) — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

]]>A selection of photos taken while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mongolia from '07-'09. I intend for these photos to share Mongolia's intriguing and ancient culture with the rest of the world. Mongolia was the largest lard empire this world has ever known during the 12th and 13th centuries, and many of it's ancient traditions and it's culture heritage are still intact: an empire's legacy.

A print of any of these photos can be purchased by pressing the 'buy' button at the top of the page. A portion of all proceeds are donated to the featured NGO of the month.