Capture the world through your lens and share your visual stories. Submit your best photographs and have the chance to exhibit your work at the Mehr Festival
To participate, we kindly ask you to complete this FORM with accurate information.
The participation fee for the festival is 2,000,000 IRR for participants residing in Iran, and USD 20 for participants residing outside Iran.
Support & Communication
Seifollah Samadian, born on January 28, 1954, in Urmia, holds a degree in English Language and Literature and has earned Iran’s first-class artistic degree. He began photography in 1968 and started making documentaries in 1979. Since 1991, he has been the editor-in-chief of Tassvir magazine, a publication dedicated to visual arts, and has served as the director of the Tassvir Image of the Year Festival and Tassvir Film Festival since 2003. Samadian is a founding member and board member of the Iranian Photographers Association, a member of the policy-making council of the Art and Experience Cinema Group, and a member of the artistic council of Milad Tower Cultural Complex.
He has served as a jury member for three editions of the Fajr Film Festival and several international film and photography festivals and has participated in Documenta 11, as well as the Istanbul and Sharjah Biennials with his video art and photography works.
Samadian has held numerous photography exhibitions and conducted photography and filmmaking workshops in Iran and abroad. He has shot three films with Abbas Kiarostami (ABC Africa, Five, and Kiarostami’s Roads) and has directed and filmed over forty short, mid-length, and feature-length documentaries, including The White Station, Tehran 25:00, Bam: The Third Day, The Tenth Day, Nazri Soup, Secrets, Once Upon a Time in Morocco, 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami, and Kiarostami at Work. Additionally, he has compiled and published numerous visual books on various artistic subjects and has documented significant political, social, and cultural events in Tehran and beyond over the past 28 years through Tassvir magazine and the Image of the Year publication. In 2019, during the 17th Image of the Year Festival, he designed and executed the Forty Years of Tehran project, showcasing the works of prominent photographers, graphic designers, cartoonists, and filmmakers capturing Tehran’s key events over the past four decades.
