Photojournalism: Honorable Mention 2015 (professional)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Ameneh (11) is running in the yard and feeling happy in a snowy day in their village.
It has been a long time that Iranian schools burn in fire, and causes death of dozens students firing 6 schools and several teachers and burning of more than 100 students since1997. In a girl school of a far border village (Shin abad) in North western of Iran, defects in the heating system caused the biggest firing event in Iranian schools, which led to death of two students and sever burns of all the others. Using non-standard heating systems and oil-burning heaters are the reasons of burning schools in Iran. They suffer from depression and lack of calmness and loss of their old friends. In addition to their bodies, their spirits also burn in the lack of earlier friendly relations in their life. Every month, these girls and their parents pass a 1000 km distance from their village (Shin abad) to Tehran, they wish regain their previous face, but according to the doctors, the treatments are uncertain, yet some of them have been under facial and hand surgical restoration with regards to their medical priority
AUTHOR
After passing basic and advance photography courses in 2008, and participation in Iranian workshops, he has been working as a professional photographer at Mehr News Agency since 2009.And later with Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency Worked .He works with local newspaper.
His photos have been already printed in many local and foreign newspapers and new agencies
His photographs have been published in the national geographic magazine , polka magazine , days japan magazine And ... He has photography records in UAE, Syria, Russia and Iran.
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