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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Abdul Razzaq Badran was known as one of the first Arab pioneers in his field by introducing modern photography and early applied arts to Palestine, Kuwait and Jordan. He was also a creative educator by being the first inspector of art education in the Ministry of Education in Kuwait in 1950. His press coverage as a war correspondent for the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 contributed to documenting the facts of the war from the front directly to Arab readers everywhere. Later, during his generous career, he volunteered to train many young Arab photographers in the art and science of photography. Abdul Razzaq Badran left behind a rich legacy of rare pictures of Palestine during the British Mandate period, in addition to pictures of the State of Kuwait before independence.
About and Definition
He was born in Haifa - Palestine in 1917.
He completed his secondary education at the Salih School in Palestine in 1932, and moved to the School of Decorative Industries in Bulaq - Egypt, where he obtained a first-class diploma.
He studied at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Cairo and obtained a diploma in 1940.
He was awarded the Renaissance Medal, First Class, by King Abdullah I Bin Al Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The Egyptian House of Al-Hilal sent him as a delegate and war correspondent to cover the Palestine war for nine months in 1948 -
He established Badran Art Studio on Prince Street in Kuwait City in 1949, the first commercial studio for photography and art in Kuwait.
Seven construction and petroleum companies contracted with Abdul Razzaq Badran to photograph their projects in the early fifties.
He was the first inspector of art education and the author of its curricula in the knowledge of Kuwait in 1950. He also studied art education in some schools in Kuwait.
He established the first photography and cinematography department in the Public Security Department in Kuwait.
He completed his professional studies at Tkhnokom Morzel/Agfa in Belgium, then joined the New York Institute of Photography and obtained a diploma.
He established a scientific photography department at Kuwait University in the mid-sixties, and worked at the university for ten years until his resignation in 1975.
He established a similar department in the Royal Scientific Society and worked in it for a year.
He established a similar department at the University of Jordan and worked in it for 13 years.
He authored the Encyclopedia of Origins of Arabic Securitization and Persian Islamic Flowering (in press), an in-depth study of the symbolic and geometric elements in Arab and Islamic art, and elements and techniques of Arabic ornamentation. It took him nearly ten years to write this encyclopedia.
Iftikhar Fahim Al-Farkh (Yaffa) got married and had two children, Badran, Omar, Basil and Hala.
He passed away on December 13, 2003.
After his death, his sons organized an annual photography competition called: Abdul Razzaq Badran Photography Award
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On the occasion of the sixteenth anniversary of the founding of the Jordan Photographic Society and the Jordanian Photographer's Day, Mr. Abdul Razzaq Badran was honored as the Person of the Year 2010.
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