Ebrahim Alipoor
Ebrahim Alipoor was born in Kurdistan. It’s for years he has been looking for ways in which can connect people. He chose photography as his main art major since he believed that in third world countries, such as Iran, influencing people is very powerful, although difficult. Therefore, He has been searching for ways in which he could connect to and influence people in the utmost difficult circumstances and governmental limitations and censorships, and also with low levels of people’s artistic information.
Selected Awards
● 2026: Grand Prize Winner, Tasweer Photo Festival Awards
● 2026: Winner, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts International Photography Competition
● 2026: 1st Place, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award, Tbilisi, Georgia
● 2026: Winner, ZEKE Awards, USA
● 2026: Finalist, Photojournalism Prize (PJP)
● 2026: Shortlisted, World Report Award | Documenting Humanity – Master Award
● 2025: Winner, World Press Photo, Long-term project
● 2025: Winner, LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards
● 2025: Winner, Muhammad Ali Center – Shining a Light Photography Contest, USA
● 2023–2024: Mentee, VII Mentor Program, VII Agency
● 2024: Nominee, Joop Swart Masterclass
● 2024: Award of Excellence, The Alexia Grant
● 2024: 1st Place, POY Asia, Portrait Category
● 2023: Winner, Canon Student Development Programme, Canon Europe
● 2022: Winner, Allard Prize Photography Competition, Vancouver, Canada
● 2021: Award of Excellence, 78th POYi
Selected Exhibitions
- 2026: Image Festival, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan
- 2026: “Voyages au Kurdistan”, Maison du Kurdistan de Lyon & Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
- 2026: Bridge Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- 2025: 13th Phodar International Biennial of Photography, Bulgaria
- 2025: Africa Foto Fair (AFF), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
- 2025: “Beyond the Wall”, Spazio Mostre “Battistella”, Venice, Italy
- 2025: Les STÉNOPÉDIES – 9ème Édition, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- 2025: “Suzan’s Journey”, Galeria Asûs, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
- 2024: “Out of Place”, Delle Prigioni Gallery, Venice, Italy
- 2023: “SOS’23 Bauhaus Weimar – Black Mountain: Nowhere”, Bauhaus of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- 2023: “Kurdistan: Images of Existence”, Okręgowe Museum, Bydgoszcz, Poland
- 2021: “The Land of Persepolis”, Lewis-Clark State Center for Arts & History, Lewiston, Idaho, USA
- 2017: “PirShalyar Collection”, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Talks and presentations
- 2026: Workshop on “Photographing Social and Political Realities”, World Press Photo × Fujikina, Arles, France
- 2026: Workshop on “Building Trust in Documentary Photography”, Design Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 2026: Workshop on “Portfolio Review and Storytelling”, Erbil, Iraq
- 2026: Panel Discussion, Social Documentary Network (SDN)
- 2026: Invited talk on “Storytelling for Change”, Photographers Without Borders
- 2026: Invited talk at Square Mile, VII Foundation, Arles, France
- 2025: Invited talk at VII Community Talk, “Winning Stories from World Press Photo”
- 2024: Workshop on “Travel Photography”, Oromiye, Iran
- 2024: Workshop on “Photography”, SNE National Photography Festival, Kurdistan, Iran
- 2023: Invited talk on “Documentary Photography”, The Ethnographic Museum of Kraków, Poland
- 2019: Workshop on “Travel and Photography”, Arasbaran National Photography Festival, Ahar, Iran
- 2019: Invited talk on “Documentary Photography”, University of Warsaw, Poland
- 2019: Invited talk on “Travel Photography”, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
- 2018: Invited talk on “In Search of a New Path”, “10 Days with Iranian Photographers”, Iranian
Ebrahim Alipoor
Ebrahim Alipoor was born in Kurdistan, Iran. It’s ten years he has been looking for ways in which can connect people. He chose photography as his main art major ten years ago since he believed that in third world countries, such as Iran, influencing people is very powerful, although difficult. Therefore, He has been searching for ways in which he could connect to and influence people in the utmost difficult circumstances and governmental limitations and censorships, and also with low levels of people’s artistic information.
Books
· 2020 – “Six Years of PirShalyar in Photography”, (Photo Story), Tehran, Iran
Documentaries
· 2024 – “They Returned” Documentary about Afghanistan after Taliban take over
· 2023 – “In Quest of Buddha” Documentary movie about Tibet
· 2022 – Cinematographer of “Tanya”, a documentary directed by Negin Ahmadi
· 2019 – “In the Quest of Stage Seventh”, Documentary movie about Dervishes in Kurdistan
Selected Exhibitions
· 2023 – “SOS’23 Bauhaus Weimar- Black Mountain: Nowhere” Bauhaus of Warsaw
· 2023 – “12th Phodar” international Biennial photo exhibition, Bulgaria
· 2021 – “The Land of Persepolis”, Lewis-Clark State Center in Lewiston, Idaho, USA
· 2021 – “11th Phodar” international Biennial photo exhibition, Bulgaria
· 2020 – “Hawraman: fringing the skies” Iranian national commission for UNESCO Group, Tehran
· 2017 – “PirShalyar Collection”, Goethe university, Frankfurt, Germany
Talks and presentations
· 2023- Invited talk on “Documentary Photography”, The Ethnographic Museum of Kraków
· 2023 – Invited talk on “Documentary Photography”, Asiaand Pacific Museum, Warsaw
· 2019 – Invited talk on “Documentary Photography”,Warsaw, University of Warsaw
· 2019- Invited Talk on “Travel and Photography”, “Arasbaran National Photo Festival”, Ahar, Iran
· 2018- Invited talk on “In Search of a New Path”, “10 Days with Iranian Photographers,” Iranian Artist’s House, Tehran
· 2017- Invited Talk on “PirShalyar”, Goethe university, Frankfurt, Germany
Selected Awards
· 2024- 1st Place, POYAsia, Portrait
· 2024- Award of Excellence, The Alexia Grant
· 2024- Nominated for Joop Swart masterclass
· 2023- VII Mentor Program 2023-24, VII Agency
· 2023- Winner, “Canon-Student-Development-Program”, Canon Europe
· 2023- Finalist, “The Everyday Projects Grant”, China
· 2023- 1st Place, “The 3rd Kurdistan Photography Festival”, Erbil, Iraq
· 2023 – Finalist, “BCN-DH International photo festival”, Barcelona, Spain
· 2023- Finalist, “Asia News Network, Changing Asia”, China
· 2022- Winner, “Allard Prize”, Vancouver, Canada
· 2022- Award of excellence, “Recreational & Traditional Sports”, POYAsia, Singapore
· 2022- Finalist, “Recreational & Traditional Sports”, POYAsia, Singapore
· 2022- Finalist, “The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest”, Russia
· 2021- Award of excellence,” sports life and recreational sports”, 78th POYi, USA
· 2021- 3rd place, “The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest”, Russia
· 2021- Award of excellence,” 1th national Kara Photo Festival, Tehran
· 2020- Finalist “4th Iranian press Photo Awards of the year” Tehran
· 2019- Finalist, “Environmental photographer of the year”, London, UK
· 2019- Jury’s Special Honorable Mention, NAVS, “Art for Animals Festival”, Chicago, USA
· 2018- Grand prize, “International Travok photo and film festival”, Iran
· 2018- 1st Place, “The first annual of HUZ photo award”, Tabriz, Iran
· 2018- 2nd Place, “Deep Vision National Photo Festival”, Arak, Iran