Daily Life In Iraqi Kurdistan

A currency trader in his office in Haj Omaran, a city next to the Iranian border.
Photographer and Filmmaker Tom Verbruggen is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these daily life images. From his project ‘Iraqi Kurdistan‘. To see Tom’s body of work click on any image.

Gold-pimped Hyundai Coupé ‘Kurdi-style’ in Rawanduz. The owner, a young Kurd in his mid-twenties, made and hand painted the body work himself.

A group of young children and a mother posing in the refugee camp of Qushtapa, near Erbil. Around 7,000 refugees, mostly Syrian have been living there since 2012.

View from the restaurant on the top floor of the Grand Millennium Hotel in Slemani. The restaurant makes a full 360° rotation in one hour.

A customer quietly drinks his alcoholic beverage in a speakeasy in Ankawa, the christian district of the city of Erbil.
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By Tom Verbruggen