"RUNNING BOY" Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

Maythem spent his formative years in Iraq before fleeing with his family into exile. He has over 20 years experience creating award-winning film and photography projects. As writer and director his films have been selected for major international film festivals, broadcasted, distributed in cinemas and won many accolades and prizes.

Maythem wrote IRAQI TALES, a body of stories for film, at the University of Oxford and then at the National Film & Television School (UK). From this DRIFTING ON THE WIND (ArRuh Ala ArRih), a film about childhood, was chosen by over 20 international film festivals, winning the Director’s Award at Hearts & Minds. Following on from this AL-BAGHDADI, a film about a young Iraqi boy migrating to the UK, won the Gold Prize for Best Foreign Language Film at the International Filmmaker Festival.

Maythem was awarded a B.A. Honours in Photography by the University of Westminster. When not engaged on client commissions his main focus is on travel, portraiture and street photography. His photographic works have been published and exhibited in several one-man shows and joint exhibitions of award-winning projects such as AL-INTITHAR, INTERFACE and the more recent MY CAMERA IN EXILE collections.

Winner of Al Hambra Award for Excellence in the Arts, Maythem works with a diverse range of international projects as well as leading workshops and masterclasses in photography and filmmaking. After The Iraqi Ministry of Culture held an exhibition of his work at the Iraqi Cultural Centre UK, he began the development of his photo book, BEYOND MOMENTS: MOROCCO, published in 2017.