About Kurdistan-Photolibrary.org
The Photolibrary of Kurdistan was established in 2008 and was based in Iraqi Kurdistan's Hawler City ( Erbil ). It is a digital library dedicated exclusively to photographs of Kurdistan and the Kurdish people, in Kurdistan and around the world. Our goal is to archive and preserve for current and future generations a continually expanding photographic collection that depicts the country and people of Kurdistan, resulting in the largest searchable resource of its kind.
Our rich collection of images are gathered from various regions where Kurdish communities are located, and obtained worldwide from public collections, private donors, photo agencies and contributing photographers. The collection spans a broad period and covers diverse subject areas that include :
- Politics ( Personalities, Institutions, Events )
- Economy ( Agriculture, Industry, Services )
- Society ( People, Religion, Activities, Migration )
- Geography ( Country, Regions, Towns )
If you are a library, museum, photo agency or a professional photographer with photographs of Kurdistan and its people, or if you simply have Kurdish photographs that you would like to share on our site, please contact us . See Contact and read Submitting images .Our staff would be happy to advise you on matters related to scanning, archiving and preservation.
We warmly encourage you to join us in our preservation efforts and to help make available to the world and the future the cultural, social, and political heritage of the Kurdish people.
In 2023 administration of the Photolibrary of Kurdistan was passed to the University of Exeter, where it is run as part of their Kurdish Digital Archive within the DAME (Digital Archive of the Middle East) project.
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