Keiwan Fatehi is Kurdish self-taught photographer. he was born in the Kurdish
family in Iran. He started photography in 2014, initially as portraiture. His interest
is in documenting people’s stories, cultures , social and political issues. As a
documentary photographer , he covered the fights between Kurdistan’
Peshmerga forces and ISIS in Bashiqa, Mosul province in 2016.
In the same year, on a trip, Fatehi with a group of Peshmerga of the Kurdistan
Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) went to the Iranian Kurdistan to cover these
Peshmerga’s activity.
The experience of living in exile over the recent years has increased Fatehi’s focus
on conflict, displacement and refugees.
As a long term project, Keiwan is documenting Kurdish issue in Iraq, especially for
the Iranian kurds who are leaving there.
He is currently based in Erbil, Iraq.
