Tareq al Duaij is a Kuwaiti photographer based in Kuwait, after several years in London in between a few years in Washington DC and a brief spell in Dubai. He was given his first camera on his 12th birthday, a tiny one using 110 film. He quickly outgrew that model and moved up to SLR cameras, before shifting to digital cameras during the 2010s. Specialisms include social documentary, nature and landscape photography and travel.