The sixth edition of the Tehran-5 Film & Photo Awards has announced the ju apprentice in the photo section.
The ju umpire team includes well-known national and international figures. The deadline for receiving your submissions is August 11th. The work’s evaluations begin on August 12th, and the winners will be announced in October, Honaron Line reported.
Iranian photographers Tulaj Aslani, Siavash Sadrazodi, Alireza Shadizadeh, French photographers Delphine Gosarsian, Sandreen Boyer Engel, Italian photographer Francec Gali, and Japanese photographers Wataru Furuta and Lena Fujimoto will offer Juraal as the festival’s Juraal.
The ju-describer president in the photo section is Delphine Gosarsian. She has worked as a portrait photographer for various media such as Libération, Le Monde, France Télévisions, Les Echos Week End, and Greenpeace.
In Art and Arts Sciences, she teaches the history of contemporary photography and continues her exploration of various pictorial and photographic media.
Her first book, “Faces of Sound,” was published in 2019 by Médiapop Editions. This is a collection of photo portraits of about 50 musicians from independent scenes over the past 30 years. She has exhibited her works in France, Cambodia, China and other places.
Touraj Aslani graduated with graphics at Kermanshah Conservatory and film director at Tehran Sooreh University.
He began taking photos at the age of 10, and at the age of 14 he began working as an experimental cinematography director with an 8mm camera. He began his professional career at the age of 25.
He has filmed over 100 documentaries, shorts, animation, fiction and experimental films. In 2000 he became the youngest professional photographer at Iranian cinemas.
Siavash Sadrazodi’s work, blending experimental techniques, alternative printing methods and plastic research, is on display at both solo and group shows in Iran and abroad.
As a photographer, composer and researcher, he has completed his essay on the phenomenology of photography and is currently working on other books focusing on contemporary dance and film. His approach to images at the intersection of sensations, shapes and ideas privileges the intensity of visuals on the surface of the appearance.
Alireza Shadizadeh has been the artistic director of the Pishro Parsian Amrdad Institute since 2015. He is selected as an honorary photographer of Iran’s visual arts.
Images of Lietta Granato have been published in Italian newspapers such as Time Out Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, and Il Fressaggero, Il Corriere di Viterbo, and many online publications.
Her work has been exhibited widely in England and Italy. She has held courses funded by the European Union in Italy, the UK, Moldova, Latvia, Serbia and Slovenia, and has taught photography in Europe as an EEC European Trainer.
She is a photography professor at the Study Abroad Consortium at the International Institute for Lorenzo de Medici in Tuscany and the University of Tascia in Viterbo, Italy.
Francesco Galli is a graduate of architecture from the University of La Sapienza in Rome. He took photographs in Italy and abroad in the fields of anthropology, architecture, archaeology, landscape and theatre.
In recent years, his research focuses on urban and natural landscapes. Among other things, he worked at Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, Sapienza Di Roma University, University of Kent, University of British Columbia, Odin Tietrett, Grotovsky Institute, and Teatro di Roma.
Sandrine Boyer Engel discovered the photograph almost by chance during her trip to Egypt. Since then, her eyes have taken her from Paris to Lisbon, Seville to Washington, and Dubai to the invisible horizon.
Recognised in the world of high-end events, she captures the essence of meticulously woven moments, from sophisticated weddings to portraits revealing aesthetics and powerful identity.
Her artistic vision was awarded a special award at the Planch Contact Photography Festival in 2010 in Deauville, France.
Wataru Furuta began creating artwork in 2014. Advertising Photography has worked on many of the main visuals of entertainment works such as films, television shows, and theater.
Known for its connections to the entertainment industry, Furuta hosted a planned photo exhibition in collaboration with Stageplay, captivating over 6,000 visitors.
In recent years he has been experimenting with the representation of new photographs, and will be presenting new works in collaboration with Spain’s Monat Gallery at the Paris Art Fair in May 2025.
His major solo exhibitions were held in Tokyo, Kyoto, London and Athens. He won the Excellence Award at the 2016 Japan Professional Photographers Society JPS Exhibition and was selected for the 2016 Japan Advertising Photographers Association Apa Award in the Advertising Photographers category.
Rena Fujimoto graduated from the Vantin Design Institute, the Faculty of Photography in 2000 and began working as a photographer in 2004.
She is a professional photographer with extensive experience in the entertainment and film industry in Japan. She has worked with many celebrities and has contributed to a variety of films.
5 Photo & Film Awards is a prestigious large festival for film and photography. It supports artists from around the world, especially independent contemporary artists, and seeks to build a bridge between different countries and cultures.
It is inspired by a 500-year-old tree in the village of Aro, on the outskirts of Damavando in Tehran.
The tree has been the subject of photography by international director and photographer Abbas Kiarostami every year for many years. His photos are on display under the title Snow White in world-renowned galleries, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
Six years ago, documentary photographer and filmmaker Mehdi Shadizadeh filmed the tree again and founded the festival to celebrate this cultural and iconic symbol that represents Kiarostami’s artistic heritage.
The number “5” comes from the 2003 film “5” made by Kiarostami and includes an average of five scenes.
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