Jehad Nga

Jehad Nga (1976) was born in Smith center, Kansas and raised in Tripoli, Libya and London, England. While studying literature in Los Angeles Jehad’s interest in photography began and would lead him to cover social issues in The Middle East and South East Asia. In 2002 Jehad returned to New York to become an Emergency Medical Technician while interning at Magnum Photos in New York City. In 2003 Jehad traveled to Iraq on behalf of The New York Times to document the US-lead invasion and the fall of the same year continued to Liberia to cover the country’s civil war.