Iraq – Seventy-year-old man masters mixing colors manually in Sulaymaniyah

Location: Iraq, Sulaymaniyah

Language: Arabic

Duration: 00:04:02

Voice: Natural

Source: A24

Restriction: A24 clients

Dateline: 22/04/2022

Storyline

Despite the technological development in paint manufacturing and color mixing process, seventy-year-old Jabbar Mohammed continues his profession of manually mixing colors. The highly experienced Iraqi man who started his business 35 years ago aspires to teach his profession to his children and grandchildren. He believes that it is an artistic profession, especially since some shades of colors can only be obtained by mixing colors manually.

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• Soundbite (Jabbar Muhammad – Color Maker):
• My name is Jabbar Mohamed, born in 1952. I work in mixing colors specifically for car paints for 35 years. It started as a hobby and then became my main livelihood.”
• Soundbite (Jabbar Muhammad – Color Maker):

“Modern technology is an important part of such business because we use a computer to produce good color combinations. However, working manually is just as important. Sometimes the colors produced by the computer are not what we want and other colors can only be produced by mixing by hand. I aspire for my children to learn this profession and to teach it to their children as well because it is a beautiful art.”

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