TEHRAN (IFILM) -- Iranian photographer Mir Ali Parandak has succeeded to grab the Best Nature Photo Award at the 2021 Plovdiv Photo Festival in Bulgaria.
The festival was held in six competition sections, including Nature Photography, Free Monochrome, Free Color, Photojournalism, Portrait, and Urban Photography sponsored by the International Federation of Photographic Art, or FIAP.
Parandak previously participated in some global photo contests in Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Bangladesh and Croatia; and grabbed the gold medal at the Kөl Fest - Kyrgyzstan.
The International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) is an international organization of national associations of photography. More than 85 national associations are members, comprising nearly one million individual photographers.
It is the only international institute in photography registered by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
As an executive member, the federation works closely with national photography institutes around the world, numbering more than 90 national institutes on five continents, and is currently the only official representative of FIAP in Iran Focus Photo Club.
For the time being, Focus Photo Club is the only representative of FIAP in Iran.