Altaf Qadri is a Kashmiri photojournalist presently working with the Associated Press.
[1] Qadri was born in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir.
He had his first freelance assignment in 2001, and was then a staff photographer for a local newspaper.
In 2003, he joined the European Pressphoto Agency, for which he provided extensive coverage of the Kashmir conflict before joining the Associated Press in 2008.
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