Yousef Khanfar is an award winning international photographer and writer who capture images that transcend the dark corridors of our world and take us to a place of splendor, where we can find humanity.

Yousef was born and raised in Kuwait, where he was exposed to images of war and violence. He needed a voice to express his inner turbulence, and photography gave him that voice. As he has said, "I have chosen to carry my camera instead of a gun and promote peace around the world; I believe peace is a finer horse to ride than violence."

At eighteen, he left for the United States, where he continues to reside and where he has found sceneries of immense variety. He distilled the beauty he saw around him with his camera, and as Ken Whitmire, President of the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum said, "Out of the Arabian Peninsula, came a lone and landless photographer who has listened to and chased the light like an animal and a predator for twenty years. He has created a breath-taking and dazzling body of work."

In 2000, his first book was published, Voices of Light, a collection of his poetic musings and fine art landscape photographs taken throughout the world. The images in this book embody the touchable and untouchable, secretive and evident mysteries of nature. Yousef's photographs are at times dreamy, at times suggestive, and other times, spiritual, a journey that takes us to the intimate corners of the Gods.

In 2006, his second book was published, In Search of Peace, an original body of work designed as a Visual Symphony of three movements, entitled Sublime, Freedom and Divine. In this book, Yousef aims to provoke us and lead us into dialogue and awareness of humanity and ourselves. Whether the photograph projects the conflict between earth and sky, the movements and arguments of mood, or the wreckages of souls, one always hears his symphony.

In 2003, he was listed as one of the World's Top Photographers by RotoVision in London among only 38 photographers. His work has been featured in many magazines including: Oprah, International Photo Art, Amateur Photographer, Persimmon Hill, Photo Life, Outdoor Photographer, and Nature's Best. His art has been collected and exhibited in galleries, cultural centers, and museums worldwide, and his work is included in the permanent collection of the International Photography Hall of Fame.

Yousef's images and writings continue to seduce us, leaving us spell-bound and perpetually intrigued by the visible and invisible shadows, by the loud and quiet chaos, by the breathing and breathless landscapes of light which insists that harmony exists, and that peace is an attainable possibility.