/ 2025 / Portraiture / Culture

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  maho *, Iran
• Studio
  mahophoto
• Website
  https://mahophoto.art/en/
• Instagram
  @maho.artworks

Mohammad Harouni is a young tour leader who lives in Bandar Kong in southern Iran and shows tourists the old leng-building workshop and other sights of the area.
Bandar Kong leng-building is 1,200 years old and was registered in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2011 under the name of Iran, but now, due to technological advances and heavy construction costs, this industry has declined and is being forgotten.

Beginning of artistic activities since 2000
Freelance photographer based in Tehran

Awards awards
Winner of the top prize of the American Poy Competition (Environmental Vision section) 2022
Winner of the Landscape section of the Sony-England 2022 World Photography Awards
Winner of the Landscape section of the Sony - UK 2021 World Photography Awards
Winner of the International Focus Photography Awards Competition - Albania 2021
Winner of the Photography and Literature Festival - Austria 2022
Winner of the big competition felix schoeller photo award 2021 Germany 2022
Finalist of the London Street Photography Festival - London 2021
Honorary diploma from the Orhan Holding International Photo Contest 2021
Finalist of the Montier France International Photo Contest France 2021
Second place in Documentary TV Festival - Iran 2021
Selected for the 14th Fajr Visual Arts Festival - Iran 2022
Nominated for the award of the fifth press photo badge of the year - Iran 2021
Second place in the Orhan Holding 2020 International Photo Contest
Ribbon of honor for the Cina - Italy 2020 match
Special appreciation of the jury in the 29th International Railway Photography Competition - Spain 2018
And more than 100 other awards from national and international festivals 2010-2022