The
executive manager of the international photo festival of Islamic cohesion said;
movie and audio-visual office of Islamic cultural and guidance general office
in East Azerbaijan held an international photo competition in the year of
Islamic cohesion and national unity photographers from 24 countries
participated in this competition by taking photos from the manifestation of the
Islamic cohesion and unity in their environment.
Ali
Moharami added; As expected the works sent to the festival were from 24 countries
and one to fourth of the received works were from foreign countries and India with 25
participators had a widespread participation in the festival.
The
director of movie and audio-visual office of Islamic cultural and guidance
general office in East Azerbaijan referred to the countries participated in the
festival as the following: France, Belgium, China, Morocco, Turkey, India,
Bangladesh, Hungry, America, Philippine, United Arabia, Sri-lanka, Oman,
Thailand, Palestine, Syria, Kuwait, Indonesia, Soudi Arabia, Pakistan,
Bulgaria, Bahrain, Latvia and Islamic republic of Iran.
Moharami
pointed out that a committee was appointed to select the works after the
termination of the dead line for sending photos . the committee members are:
Hasan Sarbakhshian, Khan-ali Siami, Mohamad-ali Jadidaleslam; Feridon
Dadash-pour and Farzaneh Shargh.
He
added that according to the decision of the committee, from the 2300 photos
sent to the festival, 2 sets and 47 photos of internal photographer and one set
and 27 photos of foreign artistes were selected to be taken part in the
competition section of the festival.
The
executive manager mentioned that in addition to holding an exhibition for
photos accepted in the competition in the studios of master Yasemi and master
Mir-ali Tabrizi, two training workshops also held for taking pictures in social
affairs and portrait.
He
continued that Dr. Oktai Cholak. Professor of Turkey's
Marmara University,
Hassan Sarbakhshian and Behzad Parvin Guds from Iran
were chosen as refrees and they were present at in Tabriz and chose the best works.