Barialai has nine years’ experience in documentary photography. His work has been published in AP, BBC, ITV London, Aljazeera English, the Diplomat Magazine, The Irish Independent, the Dublin Inquirer, and The Irish Times. He has worked as a photographer, photojournalist, and videographer from 2014 to present. He won the UNESCO photo competition in Afghanistan in 2017.

He came to Ireland in 2021 following the fall of Kabul. In 2022, he was awarded the Business to Arts Jim McNaughton Tilestyle Artist Bursary and CREATE Ireland Project Realisation Award. His work has been featured in a number of international group photo exhibitions in Kabul, New York, Canada, Paris, Jakarta, Oslo, Dublin, and Tehran.

He is currently Artist-in-Residence in Photo Museum Ireland. He also works as a freelance photographer, undertaking commissions for a variety of corporate and NGO organisations across Ireland.

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