A country in a state of emergency

Dominic Nahr

May 18, 2015

Plastic sheets flutter in the wind. It is the only protection the refugees have against the rain and the cold, as well as against the curious eyes of other refugees. Photographer Dominic Nahr documented the refugee situation in Iraq for six months.
Plastic sheets flutter in the wind. It is the only protection the refugees have against the rain and the cold, as well as against the curious eyes of other refugees. Often strangers, they now live in close proximity to each other, sleeping directly on concrete floors and crowding together around small fires. Photographer Dominic Nahr documented the refugee situation in Iraq for six months.

He spoke with LFI about his motivations, intuitive way of working, and the difficulty to reach closure.

Find the interview in LFI 4/2015, available as of May 22, 2015.
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Dominic Nahr was born in 1983 in Heiden, Switzerland, but grew up in Hong Kong. He lived and worked in many countries, including Kenya where he worked as a contract photographer for TIME magazine. At the end of 2017, he moved to Switzerland. Today he lives and works in Zurich. Nahr is a freelance photographer, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the first Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award and a World Press Photo Award. His photographs have appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, GEO, Der Spiegel, NZZ and many more. Nahr has a weekly photo column in the Swiss magazine Republik. More

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A country in a state of emergency

Dominic Nahr