UT student among the 2019 Joop Swart Masterclass Nominees

According to the related website, The panel of international nominators was substantially updated this year and 61 new nominators from all over the world were added in an effort to improve regional representation.

Seyed Madyar Shojaeifar, a M.A. student of Social Development Studies (Major: Rural) at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran for the second year has been nominated  for the Joop Swart Masterclass held by World Press Photo Foundation.

Azadeh Besharati,Azin Haghighi, Enayat Asadi, Forough Alaei Rouzbahani, Hashem Noushin Shafiei, Parisa Azadi, Sina Shiri, Soheila Sanamno are other Iranians (resident or non-resident  in Iran) among the 2019 Joop Swart Masterclass Nominees.

Of the 245 nominees, 52% identify as female and 48% identify as male. In terms of global regions, 13% are from Africa, 21% from Asia, 25% from Europe, 12% from Southeast Asia and Oceania, 18% from South America and 11% from North and Central America.

Also updated for 2019 were some of the masterclass criteria:

• There is no age limit for masterclass nominees and participants
• Nominees and participants will be emerging and early-career image makers with 5-10 years of experienced
• The selection is based solely on nominations from the panel of international nominators
• World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent Program winners receive automatic nomination to the masterclass if they fit the criteria

All nominees are currently submitting their application. The selection committee will then choose the 12 participants to be invited to Amsterdam for the masterclass in September. The chosen participants will be announced at the end of April.

The 2019 Joop Swart Masterclass nominees are:

Abdo Shanan, Algeria

Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, Venezuela

Adrien Selbert, France

Agnese Morganti, Italy

Agoes Rudianto, Indonesia

Ahmad Mousa, Iraq

Aishwarya Arumbakkam, India

Ala Hamdan, Jordan

Alaa Elkamhawi, Egypt

Alexander Caballero Díaz, Peru

Alexey Yurenev, Russia/USA

Alice Aedy, Belgium

Alice Mann, South Africa

Allison Joyce, USA

Alvaro Laiz, Spain

Amira Al-Sharif, Yemen

Amrita Chandradas, Singapore

Ana Carolina Fernandes, Brazilian

Ana María Arevalo Venezuela

Ana María Buitrón De la Vega, Ecuador

Ana Vallejo, Colombia

Anastasia Vlasova, Ukraine

Andrea Hernández Briceño, Venezuela

Andrea Provenzano, Italy

Andres Martinez Casares, Spain

Angel Garcia, Spain

Ángela Ponce, Peru

Anita Pouchard Serra, Argentina/French

Ann Sophie Linström, Luxembourg

Anna D'Addario, Australia

Anna Filipova, Bulgaria

Anna Gondek-Grodkiewicz, Poland

Arslane Bestaoui, Algeria

Augustine Paredes, The Philippines

Avener Nogueira Prado, Brazil

Azadeh Besharati, Iran

Azin Haghighi, Iran

Beimeng Fu, China

Berta Tilmantaite, Lithuania

Billy H.C. Kwok, China

Brian L. Frank, USA

Camilla Ferrari, Italy

Carole Al Farah, Syria

Carolina Arantes, France/Brazil

Carolyn Van Houten, USA

Chandan Khanna, India

Charly Cordero, Colombia

Chris Hopkins, Australia

Christopher Gregory, Puerto Rico

Christopher Lee, USA

Cristian Caceres Granda, Peru

Damilola Onafuwa, Nigeria

Daniele Volpe, Italy

Danielle Villasana, USA

David Gaberle, Czech Republic

David Molina, Gadea       Spain

Devin Oktar Yalkin, Turkey/Armenia

Diego Moreno Velasco, Mexico

Driely Vieira, Brazil

Dustin Thierry, The Netherlands

Dylan Hausthor, USA

Elias Williams, USA

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr, USA

Emile Ducke, Germany

Enayat Asadi, Iran

Erdem Varol, Turkey

Eric Gyamfi, Ghana

Erica Canepa, Italy

Esther Ruth Mbabazi, Uganda

Etinosa Yvonne Osayimwen, Nigeria

Ezra Acayan, The Philippines

Ezz Alzanoon, Palestine

Fabiola Cedillo, Ecuador

Fabiola Ferrero,     Venezuela

Felipe Fittipaldi, Brazil

Felix Kleymann, German

Fernanda Seavon, Brazil

Fethi Sahraoui, Algeria

Forough Alaei Rouzbahani, Iran

Francesca Volpi, Italy

Francis Kokoroko, Ghana

Francisco Van Steen Proner Ramos, Brazil

Frederik Buyckx, Belgium

Gabriel Luz Carpes, Brazil

Gaia Squarci, Italy

Georges Senga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Giya Makondo-Wills, South Africa/UK

Grace Baey, Singapore

Gulshan Khan, South Africa

Hadeer Mahmoud, Egypt

Hadi Uddin, Bangladesh

Hannah Reyes Morales, The Philippines

Harit Srikhao, Thailand

Hashem Shakeri, Iran

Huiying Ore, Singapore

Ian Willms, Canada

Ignacio Coló, Argentina

Ignacio Prudencio, Bolivia

Ilaria Di Biagio, Italy

Iman Al-Dabbagh, Saudi Arabia/Palestine

Ishan Tankha, India

Ismail Ferdous, Bangladesh

Jack Yong Jia Ren, Malaysia

James Tylor, Australia

Jan Jurczak, Poland

Janie Barrett, Australia

Jansen van Staden, South Africa

Jia Yanan, China

Jimmy Lee   UK/China

Johana Marcela Toro Mora, Colombia

Johanna Alarcon, Ecuador

Jorge Panchoaga, Colombia

Katia Repina, Russia

Kaveer Rai, India

Kazuhiko Matsumura, Japan

Keiji Fujimoto, Japan

Kentaro Takahashi, Japan

Kiana Hayeri, Canada/Iran

Kibuuka Mukisa Oscar, Uganda

Ksenia Ivanova, Russia

Lawrence Sumulong, The Philippines

Lena Mucha, Germany

Lianne Milton, USA

Liz Tasa, Peru

Lujan Agusti, Argentina

Lukas Kreibig, Germany

Lynsey N. Weatherspoon, USA

Mafalda Rakoš, Austria

Maíra Barbosa Erlich, Brazil

Manuel Seoane, Bolivia

Manyatsa Monyamane, South Africa

Marcos Zegers, Chile

Maria Contreras Coll, Spain

María del Coral Morales Carballo, Mexico

Mariana Greif, Uruguay

Mariceu Erthal Garcia, Mexico

Martina Cirese, Italy

Masixole Ncevu, South Africa

Mathias Benguigui, France

Matthew Abbott, Australia

Mauricio Palos, Mexico

Max Mason Hubers, Australia

Maya Ines Touam, Algeria/France

Mayra Martell Rodríguez, Mexico

Mehdy Mariouch, Morocco

Michelle Siu, Canada

Miora Rajaonary, Madagascar

Misha Vallejo, Ecuador

Mohamed Altoum, Sudan

Mohammad Shahnewaz Khan, Bangladesh

Mridula Amin, Australia

Muhammad Fadli, Indonesia

Muhammad Salah, Sudan

Myriam Boulos, Lebanon

Nadège Mazars, France

Nadia Bseiso, Jordan

Nelson López Morales, Mexico

Nemanja Pancic, Serbia

Nikita Teryoshin, Russia

Nneka Iwunna-Ezemezue, Nigeria

Nora Lorek, Germany / Sweden

Noureddine Ahmed, Tunisia

Noushin Shafiei, Iran

Nydia Blas, USA

Oleksii Furman, Ukraine

Pablo Albarenga, Uruguay

Parisa Azadi, Iran/Canada

Parvez Ahmad, Bangladesh

Pedro Silveira, Brazil

Phoebe Kiely, UK

Phumzile Khanyile, South Africa

Piruza Khalapyan, Armenia

Poulomi Basu, India

Prin Rodriguez, Peru

Raffy Lerma, The Philippines

Ramin Mazur, Moldava

Ricci Shryock, USA

Roberta Brandão Lopes, Brazil

Roger Anis, Egypt

Roi Saade, Lebanon

Ronald Pizzoferrato, Venezuela

Rosa Panggabean, Indonesia

Roselena Ramistella, Italy

Ruth McDowall, New Zealand

Sadia Marium, Bangladesh

Sagar Chhetri, Nepal

Salahuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh

Salma Abedin Prithi, Bangladesh

Sandra Mehl, France

Santi Palacios, Spain

Sara Hylton, Canada

Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, USA

Sara Sallam, Egypt

Sarah Pabst, German

Sarah Waiswa, Uganda

Saumya Khandelwal, India

Sean Puay Yang Lee, Singapore

Senthil Kumaran, India

Severine Sajous, France

Seyed Madyar Shojaeifar, Iran

Shahria Sharmin, Bangladesh

Shin Arunrugstichai, Thailand

Sibusiso Bheka, South Africa

Silvana Trevale, Venezuela

Silvia Rosi, Italy

Sima Ajlyakin, USA/Syria

Sina Shiri, Iran

Sinead Kennedy, Australia

Sofía López Mañán, Argentina

Soheila Sanamno, Iran

Soumya Sankar Bose, India

Stepan Rudik, Ukraine

Sulejman Bijedić, Bosnia

Sumy Sadurni, Spanish

Sutirtha Chatterjee, India

Swarat Ghosh, India

Sydelle Willow Smith, South Africa

Tako Robakidze, Georgia

Tamara Merino, Chile

Taro Karibe, Japan

Tatsiana Tkachova, Belorussia

Taylor Kay Johnson, USA

Thana Faroq Hazem, Yemen

Thandiwe Msebenzi, South Africa

Tharaka Ruwansiri Basnayaka, Sri Lanka

Therese Alice Sanne, Norway

Tomas Ayuso, Honduras

Trent Mitchell, Australia

Ulet Ifansasti, Indonesia

Uma Bista, Nepal

Valda Nascimento Nogueira, Brazil

Valeria Cherchi, Italy

Valeria Jaramillo Ramón, Ecuador

Vicky Roy, India

Victor Zea, Peru

Vivek Singh, India

Vladimir Zivojinovic, Serbia

Yael Martinez, Mexico

Yagazie Emezi, Nigeria

Yan Cong, China

Yoppy Pieter, Indonesia

Yu Yu Myint Than, Myanmar

Yulia Grigoryants, Armenia

Zahara Gomez, Spain/Mexico

Zied Ben Romdhane, Tunisia

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