FIAP Gold Medal goes to Iranian photo ‘Funeral’

The 4th edition of the Aqua International Salon of Photography in Tajikistan has awarded Iranian photographer Amin Behjat.

He won the FIAP Gold Medal for his black and white photo ‘Funeral’ at the People category of the Tajik exhibition.

The photo shows people attending a funeral on a snowy day in a cemetery in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia.

The FPC Trophy at the same section went to ‘Road Closed’ by Iranian photographer Hossein Davoudi, while Omid-Reza Pournabi received an honorable mention for his photo ‘After Fishing’.

Abbas Hajihossein-Kalantar won the FPC Trophy for his photo ‘Line’ at the Open Monochrome section. His photo ‘Macro Water’ received the FIAP Ribbon at the Water Color category.

Davoudi and Fatemeh Moeinifar received honorable mentions at the same category.

At the Travel section, the FIAP Ribbon was presented to Seyyed-Reza Javadi for ‘Man and Fire’, while Davoudi and Alireza Mousavi received honorable mentions at the same category.

The FPC Trophy at the Landscape Color section went to Saeed Sabetqadam-Moqaddam for his ‘Khaled Nabi’.

Davoudi, Hajihossein-Kalantar, Zeinab Mokhtari and Mohammad-Reza Pourian received honorable mentions at the Open Color section.

The winners were selected by a jury formed by Djordje Vukicevic from Serbia, Reha Bilir from Turkey, and Ahmad Khatiri from Iran.

The Tajik exhibition is organized every year with contributions from the Federation Internationale de l’Art Photographique (FIAP), the Photographic Society of America (PSA) and the Focus Photo Club, Iran’s branch of the FIAP.

Water is the central theme of the exhibition, which is held in the categories of Open Monochrome, Open Color, Water Color, Travel, Landscape Color and People.

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