His interest in photography appeared, after his father presented him with a toy in the form of a camera after returning from the Hajj, which contained pictures of scenes of the Great Mosque of Mecca and Medina, and asked him to give him a real camera the next time. This passion turned into a search for the aesthetics of photography when he was looking at the faces of visitors coming from different countries and regions to visit the shrine of Imam Ali and Islamic monuments in the holy city of Najaf.