Remembering photojournalist, Kamaran Najm, kidnapped by ISIS gangs 7 years ago

Kurdistan 01:49 PM - 2021-06-12

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The Kamaran Najm Museum is the first museum in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, dedicated to a journalist photographer and all his private and journalistic items.

 

The Kamaran Museum is in the Metrography Agency in Sulaimaniyah, consisting of two sections, including a portion of the equipment that was lost on the day Kamaran was lost, containing two bags, cameras, laptops, biscuits and his water bottle.

 

The other part of the museum holds the items that Kamaran used at home or in his work place.

 

Kamaran Najm, a photojournalist and founder of the Metrography Agency, was born in Kirkuk in 1987 and has been working as a journalist and photographer since 2003.

 

Kamaran has worked for international news agencies such as Reuters and the Associated Press. He also worked for the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Times of London, and has won several awards, such as the World Journalism Photo Honor award, the Mena Masterclass of the Middle East and Africa.

 

Kamaran Najm was a member of the Sulaimaniyah branch of the Kurdistan Journalists' Syndicate, who was wounded and Kidnapped by ISIS on 12/6/2014 when he was covering a battle between Peshmerga forces and ISIS terrorists in the mala Abdullah area west of Kirkuk city and he has not been found since then.

 

 

 

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