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Omid Salehi (1 June 1972), is an Iranian photographer. Omid started working at the age of seventeen in Shiraz and has since won numerous photographic awards.

Life and work
Omid belongs to a generation of artists whose experiences of the Islamic Republic have only served to strengthen their resolve to document the social transformation of their country. Omid’s images embody geometrical patterns of movement and design. They reveal the extraordinary in the everyday – a gathering of women across a sacred terrain of a religious festival; the solicitude of men in an ancient “hammam”; or the interplay of sunlight and water among children herding buffalo.

Books
Omid Salehi : A Photographer's Journey through Iran Hardcover – 7 Oct 2011

2011 Omid Salehi: A Photographer's Journey Through Iran, Beyond Art Publications, London (UK)

2010 Omid Salehi – Cheshm (Eye) Series, Mahriz Publication, Tehran (IR)

2009 Transit Tehran, Garnet Publishing, Reading (UK)

2008 Iranian Photography Now, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern (DE) 2003 12 Photographic Journeys - Iran in the 21st Century, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran (IR)

(This list of awards is taken from Foundation Behnam Bakhtiar)

Awards
2007 Iranian Documentary Photography Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

2005 Ship & Sea Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

2005 Kaveh Golestan's Photo Journalism Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

2004 Kaveh Golestan's Photo Journalism Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

2003 Janbaz Festival Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

2002 Iranian Photographer's Center Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

2002 Janbaz Festival Award, Third prize, Tehran (IR)

1999 Karvean-e-shohada Award, Third prize, Tehran (IR)

1997 Annual Iranian Documentary Photography Competition - Photo essay section, First prize, Tehran (IR)

1997 Festival of the Iranian Young Cinema Society Award, Second prize, Tehran (IR)

1996 Festival of the Iranian Young Cinema Society Award, Second prize, Tehran (IR)

1995 Fajr Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

1995 Annual Iranian Documentary Photography Competition - Photo essay section, First prize, Tehran (IR)

1995 Festival of the Iranian Young Cinema Society Award, Second prize, Tehran (IR)

1993 Festival of the Iranian Young Cinema Society Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

1991 Festival of the Iranian Young Cinema Society Award, First prize, Tehran (IR)

(This list of awards is taken from Foundation Behnam Bakhtiar)

Education
Graphic Design, Shahid Rajaei University, Tehran (IR)

Photography, LCC University, London (UK)