Barat Ali Batoor was born in 1983, in a family that was driven out of Afghanistan during civil war when most of his people were massacred. He returned to his ancestral country for the first time after September 11, 2001, when the Taliban regime was still in Kandahar despite the U.S. campaign to oust them. After visiting the devastation and destruction of 23 years of war, he decided to work for his country and to draw the world's attention to the plight of the Afghan people the problems facing the country. He chose photography as his medium of expression.
Batoor started photography in 2002 and launched his first solo exhibition in 2007. His photographs were exhibited in Denmark, Dubai, Australia, Pakistan, Italy, Japan and Afghanistan. His works are published in magazines, newspapers and catalogues such as Stern Magazine, India Today, Outlook Afghanistan, Afghanistan Times, Afghan Scene, Risk Magazine, Kabul Weekly, Afghanistan Times and others. He participated in “Lahore Artist Residency” by VASL in Lahore, Pakistan and got the photography grant from New York’s Open Society Institute for the project “Child Trafficking in Afghanistan/The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan”.