By Syma Sayyah, Tehran

 

The winners of the Third Kaveh Golestan Photojournalism Award were announced on Friday October 27 in Tehran. This year, Kian Amani won the Best Young Talent award with his The Best Years Of Our Lives photo collection.

 

Amani has captured young couples sitting intimately at a park in Tehran. A series of pictures show how a couple is approached and questioned by police and then taken away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And so the story continues...

 

  

 

The Judges for 2006 Kaveh Golestan Photojournalism Awards were:

Mr. Abbass Kosari (Photojournalist), Mr. Omid Salehi (Photojournalist and Documentary maker), Mr. Hossein Ghandi (Professor of Journalism and Editor of Jam-e-Jam in UAE), Ms Catherine David (Art Director at Pompidou Centre ) and Bahman Ghobadi (Film Director).  

 

Please see the links below for further information:

 

http://www.golestanaward.com/news3.php

http://www.golestanaward.com/

http://golestanaward.com/isna.htm