Alaa Al-Marjani | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 |
| Nationality | Iraqi |
| Occupation | Photojournalist |
| Employer(s) | Associated Press, Reuters |
Alaa Al-Marjani (born 1967) is an Iraqi photojournalist from the city of Najaf who worked for Associated Press and is currently working with Reuters. He covered the event of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the civil war that followed the invasion, ISIS's occupation of northern and western Iraq, and the liberation of the city of Mosul from that organization.
Alaa hails from a religious family. His father, the writer, preacher Sheikh Haider Saleh Al-Marjani Al-Khuza’i (1927-1997), studied at the Hawza in holy Najaf and was interested in writing encyclopedic books about Najaf and its figures, including the books: “The Preachers of the Al-Minbar Al-Husseini”, “An-Najaf Al-Ashraf in the Past and Now”, "Fragments from the life of As-Sadiq", "Personalities of Najaf", "Nuggets of Etiquette and Morals", "Nuggets from the Literature of the Revolution", and "History of Alawi Shrine". [1]
His interest in photography appeared, after his father presented him with a toy in the form of a camera after returning from the Hajj, which contained pictures of scenes of the Great Mosque of Mecca and Medina, and asked him to give him a real camera the next time. This passion turned into a search for the aesthetics of photography when he was looking at the faces of visitors coming from different countries and regions to visit the shrine of Imam Ali and Islamic monuments in the holy city of Najaf. In the 1990s, he began photographing the campaigns of foreign pilgrims coming to visit his city and the neighboring holy city of Karbala. Relying on himself, through trial and error, he acquired the skill of photography and knowledge of the basics of photography, then turned professional and went into the world. [2]
After the United States and its allies invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, Al-Marjani found his opportunity to join the ranks of the Western press. He joined the Associated Press and later to Reuters. He was assigned to photograph in a hostile-environment, the major events that followed this invasion of the civil war in the hot spots in Baghdad and Fallujah. He photographed the armed confrontations between Jaish Al-Mahdi Militia and the American forces in Najaf, and documented the tragedy of the displaced after ISIS occupied vast areas in western and northern Iraq and documented the extent of the devastation that afflicted the city of Mosul after its liberation, and his lens documented the unrests that resulted in the resignation of the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi in 2019, and documented COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions on Iraqi society. [3] [4] [2] [5] [6]
Al-Marjani participated in many exhibitions inside and outside Iraq, most notably:
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