Mohammad Kheirkhah Zoyari
Mohammad Kheirkhah Zoyari also known as Moe Zoyari[1] (born 24 June 1986) is an Iranian photographer who won the Award of Excellence of Picture of the Year International contest[2] at the age of 21. He was the youngest photographer at that time from Iran to win a distinguish international award.
Biography
Zoyari worked for United Press International,[3] and British Broadcasting Corporation from 2005 to 2015. He started his work as a photographer at the age of 14. After covering Iran's nuclear program, earthquakes, and political turmoil, he expended to cover events in Middle East, Europe and the United States. His photos have been published in national, and international journals including Newsweek,[4] Time,[5] Le Figaro,[6] among others. Mohammad left Iran for good after the turbulent aftermath of Iranian presidential election, 2009 and went to Afghanistan for 44 days to be an embedded journalist with U.S. Army, and is now based in San Francisco, California. He is a photo contributor to Associated Press, and a photography writer for Deutsche Welle.[7]
Awards
- Best photographer of the year (PDNedu) – 2012
- Iran’s best documentary photographer – Image of The Year Publication – 2008
- Award of excellence from Missouri School of Journalism (Picture of The Year) – 2007
Experience
- Fars News Agency – 2003—2004
- British Broadcasting Corporation – 2004—2005
- United Press International (UPI) – 2005—2015
- Deutsche Welle (DW) – 2010—current
- Associated Press (AP) – 2016—current
Individual exhibitions and lectures
- Guest lecturer at Home For Cooperation in Nicosia, Cyprus March 2, 2016 [8]
- Photo Exhibition of Forgotten Colors – Sunnyvale Public Library, California 2010[9]
- Guest lecturer at College of San Mateo – California 2011
- Guest lecturer – Faculty of Social Sciences, Tehran University, Iran 2009
- Photo Exhibition of Difficulties of Being a Woman in Iran, Oldenburg, Germany 2007
Group exhibitions
- Photo Exhibition at University of Putra – Malaysia 2009
- Photo Exhibition of 30 Years of Iranian Photography, Monnaie de Paris, France 2009 [10]
- Manager of a week long workshop for Iranian photographers, Tehran 2008
- Photo Exhibition of Just For Foreign Policy, New York, NY 2005 [11]
Publications
- Exile: A photo book featuring Iran, India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, France, Italy, Germany, and the U.S. (2012) ISBN 978-0-9857770-1-2
References
- ↑ "MOE . ZOYARI". Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ↑ The photo is available at Picture of the Year International Website
- ↑ More than 5000 photos taken by Zoyari on United Press International photo wire UPI web page, accessed 2015-12-30
- ↑ The picture cover of Newsweek magazine, which first was published on UPI website on 5 June 2009, accessed 2015-12-31
- ↑ Tha Hajj Goes High-Tech Photos of Zoyari published on a story about Hajj on Time website, accessed 2015-12-30
- ↑ Iran : comment vont les femmes? Photo by Zoyari published in Le Figaro, accessed 2015-12-31
- ↑ Photography school page managed by Zoyari on Deutsche Welle Photography articles written in Persian by Mohammad Zoyari on Deutsche Welle's website, accessed 2015-12-30
- ↑ Link to the Facebook event page, https://www.facebook.com/events/1684117188508676/
- ↑ Susan Denniston, Administrative Librarian of Sunnyvale Library talked about Zoyari’s photo exhibition in 2010 Photo Exhibition of Forgotten Colors in Sunnyvale Public Library
- ↑ 30 years of Iranian documentary photography An article about the group photo exhibition on French Photoquai's website, accessed 2015-12-30
- ↑ Perpetual War for Peace A video discussion on a group photo exhibition in New York named Just For Foreign Policy