Iranian photographer’s ‘White and Colorful’ wins Indian award

The Greenstorm Global Photography Award in India has honored Iranian photographer’s ‘White and Colorful’.

The organizers of the 13th edition of the Indian contest announced last week the photo by Mohammad-Reza Masoumi was selected as the winner through a public poll, in which thousands of photography enthusiasts and laypeople from all over the world participated.

“Masoumi’s winning entry depicts a breathtaking sight of a man-made forest in Iran spreading through the region of Khalkhal. It exhibits a remarkable human attempt to restore the balance of nature by revitalizing the environment,” Greenstorm Foundation said in a press release.

The photo previously received a gold medal at the second Issyk-Kul International Exhibition of Photography of the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) in Kyrgyzstan.

The Greenstorm Foundation also picked Jophel Botero Ybiosa from the Philippines and Hadi Dehqanpour from Iran, respectively as the first and second runner-ups for the award.

Twenty-five photographs curated by an eminent jury comprising jury chair Prathap Suthan from New Delhi, Mumbai-based wildlife photographer Aishwarya Sridhar, and landscape architect Michael Little from Bengaluru were competing for the awards.

The photos were chosen from more than 3,500 submissions by photographers from more than 40 countries, including the US, the UK, Canada, Algeria, Brazil, Iran, Malaysia, South Korea, Morocco, and Vietnam.

The Greenstorm Foundation is a not-for-profit public trust formed to impact appropriate behavioral changes among people through the power of creativity.

The award is organized in collaboration with the Greenstorm Foundation in Koch, India every year with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

The theme for this year’s contest was “Restore Green Lineage” based on the UNEP theme for 2021 World Environment Day — Ecosystem Restoration.

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