■ Awards

  • 2017 , Netherlands , 2017- Selective in the Native & Everyday Projects Mentorship Program in the Native Agency
  • 2017 , Turkey , 2017- Winner of 2nd place in Istanbul Photo Awards in story news
  • 2018 , The United States of America , 2018- Recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Fellowship
  • 2018 , United Kingdom , 2018- Finalist of the Philip Jones Griffiths Award
  • 2019 , Netherlands , 2019- Winner of 3rd place of the World Press Photo contest in Contemporary Issues - singles
  • 2019 , Germany , 2019- Finalist of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award
  • 2019 , The United States of America , 2019- Finalist of the Photography 4 Humanity 2019- Winner of 1st place the conflict of the Direct Look photo contest
  • 2019 , Netherlands , 2019- Winner of 2nd place single in the LensCulture Black and White Photography Award
  • 2020 , Netherlands , 2020- Winner of 2nd place series in the LensCulture Exposure Award
  • 2020 , Kanada , 2020- One of the winners of the May 2020 Allard Prize Photography Competition.
  • 2020 , France , 2020- Accepted to be part of the 32st edition of the International Festival of Photojournalism “Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan“ in a screening show.
  • 2021 , The United States of America , 2021- Recipient of the Pulitzer Center Grant. 2022- Finalist of the LensCulture Black & White Awards
  • 2023 , İtaliya , 2023- Finalist of the Cortona On The Move Award
  • 2024 , Netherlands , 2024- Winner of 1nd place series in the LensCulture Black and White Photography Award
  • 2024 , Germany , 2024- Finalists of the Stern Prize 2024

■ Publications

  • 2019 , Publishing a photo of a project about Afghan refugees called "Rising From the Ashes of War" in the 6Mois Magazine. , France , 6Mois Magazine
  • 2022 , Publishing a project about Bakhtiari nomadic women called "Hard Land" in the NPR News. , The United States of America , NPR News
  • 2022 , Publishing the project "Survivors of Death Row" in the Guardian Newspaper. , England , Guardian Newspaper
  • 2023 , Publishing the project "Survivors of Death Row" in the Courrier Japon Newspaper. , Japan , Courrier Japon Newspaper
  • 2024 , Publishing the project "Survivors of Death Row" in the Stern Crime magazine. , Germany , Stern Crime magazine
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Enayat Asadi is a freelance photographer based in Iran. He born in Bandar Abbas a southern city in Iran. In 2017 he started professional photography self-taught. He pursues long-term projects that are often in search of discovering the fundamental issues of human life and tragedy. His concentration in photography is on social justice, human rights, and mental issues. From 2017 to 2019, following the aftermath of the Afghanistan war, he began photographing Afghan immigrants and covering issues of illegal immigrants for his project “Rising From the Ashes of War,” which won him the Word Press Photo Award. From 2019 to 2020, he worked on his project “Hard Land” about Bakhtiari nomadic women in the Zagros mountains of Iran and imaged their strength and rich culture in front of the violence they suffer in difficult and far from welfare conditions. This project was supported by the Pulitzer Center. From 2021 to now, he is working on an ongoing project called “Survivors of Death Row” about people who committed murder and were sentenced to death. As a photographer, he believes that years of toil and sweat to discover the truths of the ancient world and human spiritual issues will not happen except with his dedication to society. His opinion about the artist’s duty is to make connections between things by making a bridge from the past to the present moment and then to the still-awaited future through his photographic experience.

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