KAIWAN SHABAN

Kaiwan, Born and raised in the city of Akre in Iraqi Kurdistan, Kaiwan Shaban is a 21 years old aspiring visual artist and internationally published photographer and retoucher. He has been in the field of photography and photo editing for over eight years now. Kaiwan has a 5-year experience on YouTube in which he posted Lightroom and Photoshop tutorial videos in addition to travel, lifestyle, and commercial video content along with some short films. Today, Kaiwan has his own business online as K1 Production, www.k1production.com // selling digital products such as Presets, Luts...etc. He has calculated over 230K subscribers and over 10 million views, making him one of the few creatives to reach such an audience in his region. Throughout his career, Kaiwan has worked with a number of high-end clients including Mercedes, Huawei, Oppo, Sony Music and Skillshare, as well as a few celebrities such as Lewis Capaldi, Enca, Bana, Eva Zu Beck and many more. Kaiwan does not only produce still content but he has also ventured into the world of videography and filmmaking. His passion led him to travel to several countries to explore his style and art even further and experience new places and cultures. His unique artistic work is derived by his motivation to capture the beauty of nature and by the art of photography itself including all the inspiring creatives in the field. For Kaiwan, photography is not just a job or a hobby to escape boredom, it gives meaning to his life and makes him always want to strive for the better to push his boundaries. That’s why he wants to inspire a generation of photographers who will have just as much love and appreciation for the art as he does, maybe even more.