"This is called LIFE" by Abbas Valadi

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THIS IS CALLED LIFE

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Abbas Valadi P U B L I S H E R

Jorge Pinto Guedes P U B L I S H E D

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Be your choice Be a reflection of hope in existence, not of fear.

For me, photography is the art of seeing and being with nature, which can sometimes be sad behind its laughter, or maybe, as a child, it is alone in fear, or it is eternal love.

This is called life.

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PHOTOGRAPHY ACTIVITIES 01 Participating in several group exhibitions in Tehran, Sanandaj and Kish 02 Judge of two periods of Kish National Photo Festival 03 Judging in several online photography competitions 04 Workshops: Minimal photography and photo criticism on Kish Island 05 Member of the Iranian Photographers Association SUCCESSES

Abbas Valadi Born in Qazvin, Iran, at May 3, 1986

Field of Architecture - Civil Engineering Owner of Kish Minimal Photography Magazine Interest in photography

01 Accepting 40 works in international photography competitions 02 Winning the fpc trophy mark in FIAP competitions 03 Winning the Medal of Honor at FIAP amu darya 2020 international exhibition of photography 04 Winning the Medal of Honor at FIAP somoni 2020 international exhibition of photography 05 Winning the Medal of Honor at FIAP naryn 2020 international exhibition of photography 06 Finalist of competition of HIPA 2020

07 Finalist of the French International Wildlife Competition 08 Winner Hormozgan photo contest 2020 09 Third place in Brusque International Competition 10 Commendable in the Irasography competition 11 Photo selected and selected for Dr. Hejazi Photo Festival and printing of 2 photos in the festival book 12 Selecting the photo of the poster of the two exhibitions of the resonance of life and human nature 13 The third place in the free section with the subject of conflict between the competitions of Yazd Azad University students 14 Achieving the rank of 16 top photographers in the minimal concept section of 2019 35awards 15 Achieving the rank of the top 100 photographers in Iran in the 35awards 2019 competition 16 Reached the semi-finals of the Hipaa Grand Prix 17 Republishing more than 22 works on global sites 1x, 100asa, piart and minimalha

18 Selected in the life section of Hamshahri newspaper and its publication 19 Publishing three photos on the website of vouge italia magazine 20 Selected refereeing photo on gurushots site 21 Selected photo in contrast challenge 22 Second place in the competition of 40 photographers of Isfahan Photo Center 23 Printed in three domestic magazines as the photo of the day and three titles of selected photos of the month in the online magazine cameramag and the House of Photographers 24 Attending the section of the image exhibition of the year in six sections of 1399-1400 25 Finalist and selected of the 8th Hormozgan Photo Festival 26 Attending the .NET camera exhibition 27 Leader of Photowalk 2019 Kish Island 28 Reaching the final stage and being one of the top 100 photographers in the world conceptual genre and the top seventy photographers in Iran in the annual 35awards2020 competition