Munir El Kadi

Munir El Kadi is a photographer and photography educator currently based in the beautiful city of Vancouver, BC, Canada. He was born in Beirut to Iraqi parents. He was strongly influenced by his father's interest in Photography, and his mother's artistic and creative background and surroundings. He started photography at the age of 14 when his father gave him an AE1 Canon film camera. At the age of 17 he had his first photograph published as a cover for Afaq Arabia cultural journal in Iraq.

In the early days of digital photography he shifted his interest to documentary film making before moving back into photography in 2008. He has won several international awards including an Honorable Mention in PX3 2016, the Juror of Merit award in the International Fine Art Photography Awards, Paris 2013 and a Special Honorable mention in the IPA Luci Awards in 2012.

His works have been exhibited in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Paris, the Wisbech Museum in Oxfordshire, (UK), the Darkroom Gallery in Vermont (US), Freiburg, Germany as well as in Vancouver Canada. Munir earned his photography diploma from New Institute of Photography in 2014. He has been a member with Vancouver Photo Club since 2021