Time runs the Smuggler Story
After a few months of waiting, Time has just posted my Smuggler piece. Click here to see how they decided to run it.
Election Pictures
My election pictures are up: archive.sebmeyer.com A few little stories coming your way once the work load decreases. Stay tuned…
A little bit of bragging…
Last Friday was hands down the best day of my photo career. My images from Baghdad went up on the Time website (as well as the print edition) and I also got the front page of the Wall Street Journal (the photo is somewhere in here). News moves fast and there have been many front [...]
Dawn in Baghdad
A dawn snapshot from the 6th floor of the Mansour Hotel in Baghdad. Tigris to the left. T-Walls in the front. And the Al-Dura Refinery burning away in the distance…
A Restaurant Experience in Iraqi Kurdistan
Last week, after a very disappointing “photo session” with Masoud Barzani I ended up in an Iranian Kurdish restaurant on the outskirts of Erbil, called 1001 Nights. The place was amazing. Truly. Deeply. Frighteningly. Firstly, the email address at the bottom of the menu read 1001nihgtsrestaurant@yahoo.com (sic). The busboys all wore plastic bags on their [...]
Two Items on Sale at the Citadel “Antiq Kala”
The other day, on a visit to Erbi’s Citadel, I ducked into the “Antiq Kala” to see what “antiques” they had on sale. Here are two absolute gems:
Kurdish Snow, Canon 5D Mark II, and Final Cut Pro
It’s been A LONG TIME since I’ve used Final Cut Pro and certainly the first time I’ve used it with my new Canon. Here are two shots taken this morning outside the Grand Mosque in Sulaimaniyah expertly woven together: And here some photos as well. Even with all that HD video potential in my hands, I [...]
The Kite Flyers of Chamchamal
Chamchamal is a weird Kurdish town in northern Iraq that has a reputation for the being the Wild West of the region. It’s often referred to as “Texas,” but a over lunch a young man whose cousin was murdered in a killing spree last month told me that Texas should be referred to as Chamchamal, [...]
Metrography grows…
Metrography grows! We’ve now got French, Italian, and British representation! For France we’ve signed with MaxPPP For Italy, we’ve signed with ParalleloZero For the UK, we’ve signed with Universal News and Sport And of course there’s the ubiquitous blog
Iraq’s First Photo Agency!
My friend Kamaran has launched Iraq’s first (and for the time being) only photography agency. It’s called Metrography and you can find it here: http://www.photoshelter.com/c/metrography. Check it out now and then keep coming back as we add more and more! Thoughts, suggestions, and of course praise are all welcomed!
Some New Photos
Two days ago I went up to the Iranian border to shoot a story on smugglers trafficking petrol into Iraq and alcohol into Iran. The photos are here and you’ll have the story in a day or two when I get over this horrible allergy I’ve developed. You’ll also have the story about my meeting [...]
A Special Place
The Aqueduct at Jerwan in Iraqi Kurdistan is the oldest standing aqueduct in the world, dating back to 700 BC. When I went to visit it last month, I found this. My friend Brian turned to me and said, “There’s a special place in hell for people who do that kind of stuff.” For more [...]
Ehsan Maleki
Reporters Sans Frontiers have just made my friend Ehsan Maleki their “poster child.” Ehsan had to flee Iran after covering the most recent election and the protests which followed. He crossed into Iraqi Kurdistan (in a herd of sheep crawling on all fours) where he received asylum. The French government then flew him to France [...]
Kurdish Three Ring Circus
I think I knew things were different this time at about 10 am. That’s not quite true. I’d had a sinking suspicion for a while that these anti-terror raids I’ve been going have been nothing more than a PR stunt. This time, however, it was too much. The light bulb moment came while I was [...]
The Long Good Friday (part 2)
(…continued) After leaving the monkey and his teenager to their afternoon of rest, I continued down the street. The late afternoon sun was blinding and most people were standing in whatever shade they could find to hawk their wares be it chickens, turkeys, pigeons, or goats. Well, there was only one goat and he look [...]
The Long Good Friday (part 1)
It started off innocently enough last Friday. After a late breakfast, I decided to take my cameras around the market after prayers to see what the centre of town looked like on a day off. I walked past the main mosque as hundreds of people spilled out onto the street. The air was cool, the [...]
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