Farhad Noory. [Photo/Agencies]

"We quickly realized how talented he was and sent him to a painting school as well as a three-month photography workshop. So this is a retrospective of what he learned there," says Edin Sinanovic of the Refugees Foundation, a local NGO.

In addition to holding his first exhibition, "Farhad wanted to help someone. So he chose to dedicate it to a 6-year-old Serbian boy who needs funds for his therapy after brain cancer," Sinanovic says.

Dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans, Noory, who speaks a little English, says he was "feeling stressed" at his first exhibition.

The smiling young artist says he wanted to help a child in difficulty because "we need to be kind", and he hopes to meet the boy for whom he was fundraising.

In aid of the boy's therapy, Noory sold his photographs of everyday life in the city and prints of his paintings for 250 to 800 dinars ($2.5-8).