Al Kamalizad
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set:The City That Never Came to Be
Saddam Hussein was removed from power in 2003. In the following years, the relative stability in the north of Iraq allowed for a surge of economic investment. Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan, was dubbed “the next Dubai.”
But in 2014 ISIS advanced into Mosul – an hour’s drive west – and development screeched to a halt
In 2016 I went to Erbil to help produce a film to play before the UN General Assembly. These are photos I made during production.
The City That Never Came to Be
Saddam Hussein was removed from power in 2003. In the following years, the relative stability in the north of Iraq allowed for a surge of economic investment. Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan, was dubbed “the next Dubai.”
But in 2014 ISIS advanced into Mosul – an hour’s drive west – and development screeched to a halt
In 2016 I went to Erbil to help produce a film to play before the UN General Assembly. These are photos I made during production.
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set:
In the days leading up to Super Tuesday 2020, three of the leading Democratic presidential candidates made their way through Los Angeles, vying for California’s 415 delegates.(17 slides)
Super-Cali-Tuesday
In the days leading up to Super Tuesday 2020, three of the leading Democratic presidential candidates made their way through Los Angeles, vying for California’s 415 delegates.(17 slides)
set:
The country braced itself for a tumultuous election day, but when I went to cover Los Angeles polling places for KPCC / LAist it proved to be a perfectly “boring Tuesday” as one poll worker put it. This was in contrast to spontaneous street celebrations that broke out all over the city the following weekend.
(19 slides)
Election / Celebration
The country braced itself for a tumultuous election day, but when I went to cover Los Angeles polling places for KPCC / LAist it proved to be a perfectly “boring Tuesday” as one poll worker put it. This was in contrast to spontaneous street celebrations that broke out all over the city the following weekend.
(19 slides)



















