The final ceremony of seventh festival of "Picture of the year" was held on Friday 12th Mar 2010 in Artists House, Tehran.

The competition covers different art forms; phtography, graphics, cartoon and film.

The organizers announced 1673 requests were recieved out of which 830 photographers were selected for participation in the comprtition. 871 photographs with 561 tabloids , out of 45000 frames went on the exhibition walls. 164 young photographers were among the participants.  In cartoon section out of 1276 works by  296 participants, 40 works by 40 artists were selected, and finaly 56 graphists were also present among the participants.

In social photography the "Mohsen Rasoulov" prize went to Saeed Ameri, in sport photography Roshan Norouzi  and Hossein Alizadeh MOvahhed were selected  but no body won the Rsouluv prize. In artistic photography Majid Adibi and Hossein Golpa won the Rasoulov prize as best photographers.

In creative photography Ghazaleh Ghazanfari and Samad Ghorbanzadeh won the best prize.

Among cartoonists Hossein Yuzbashi won the best prize while among graffitist Mehdi Khansari won the Rasoulov prize.

Curtsey: Mehr and Namadineh News services

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