Alan Khaledi is a photographer born in Erbil, Kurdistan, an autonomous region in Northern Iraq.
He moved to California at the age of 17 to pursue his undergraduate education at Stanford University, studying Electrical Engineering.
Inherited from his parents who are writers and journalists, Alan always had an interest in the field, especially documenting people and their stories, shedding light on their issues and helping them share that with others on a global scale. After his second year of college, Alan decided to shift gears and began focusing more on photography and using it in the scope of both design and philanthropy projects he took part in. In the summer of 2016, he started R4Refuge, a project documenting and sharing stories of refugee children inflicted by ISIS, and plans to continue the project and use the content for philanthropic purposes. Alan's work has been published in Pulse Magazine and the Kurdish Project, and has had his photo projects exhibited by Stanford UNICEF as well as other arts and cultural events at Stanford.
Alan shoots most of his photos using his Canon Rebel T5. He has also shot and developed 35 mm and medium format film.
Alan is committed to using his photography to work on issues related to environmental conservation, human rights, and documenting diminishing cultures and people.
