Munir El Kadi (1970), is an Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates based photographer. He is Iraqi, born in Beirut, Lebanon to parents of mixed Arab and Turkish roots where he lived for the first few years of life before moving to London, UK until age 10 before moving to Baghdad, Iraq. He has been living in Abu Dhabi for the past 16 years. He became interested in photography at the age of 14 when he received his first camera. His mother, Amal Al-Khedairy, originally a university lecturer and an art collector in Baghdad, later ran the first private cultural centre in Baghdad (Beit...more
