Founder of 5PhotoAward, Director, Film Maker, Photographer
Mehdi Shadizadeh is founder of 5Photoaward, he maked Documentary film about Abbas Kiarostami, the name is “Walking with the Wind” and “Single Tree” and “Dejhavoo”. He Attended more than ten domestic and foreign Exhibition…
Female photographer specializing in portraits.
With a Mamiya RZ in one hand and a flash in the other, a leather jacket on my back, I roam and explore the world.
My photo shoots are always very quick because I love spontaneity and letting go.
Successfully bringing the models into my world in just a few minutes is a personal challenge.
Even if I hide behind my camera, each portrait is a self-portrait without reflections.
I travel through my models. I am at once a violinist, an old rocker, a young actress…
I project myself into my model like an alter ego.
I work as a portrait photographer for various media outlets: Libération, Le Monde, France Télévisions, Les Echos week-end, Greenpeace, and more, and I am a member of the Divergence-Images collective.
Doctor of Fine Arts and Art Sciences, I also teach the History of Contemporary Photography and continue my exploration of various pictorial and photographic mediums.
My iconographic universe is a constant reflection on the human body and skin.
Passionate about music, my first book, “Faces of Sound,” was published in 2019 by Médiapop Editions. It is a collection of photographic portraits of around fifty musicians from the independent scene over the past thirty years (Sonic Youth, Pavement, Suede, The Bad Seeds, Etienne Daho, etc.).
I exhibit regularly: Paris (Carreau du Temple, Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Galerie Visionairs, Maison de la Tunisie, Walrus Bar, etc.), Arles (Nuit de l’année des Rencontres d’Arles), Cambodia (Photophnompenh Festival), China (Sichuan Art Institute), etc.
Born and raised in the north of Italy from parents coming from the south, Lietta emigrated to England on her own when she was 23. She has lived and worked in London for 15 years attending University of Westminster and then Saint Martins School of Art for her Master in Fine Arts while working from her Photography Studio “Workshop One” in Crouch End (North London).
Her images have been published on TIME OUT Magazine, The British Journal of Photography and o Italian newspapers such as il Messaggero, il Corriere di Viterbo and many online publications.
Her work has been widely exhibited and her most recent solo Exhibitions are:
People and Fish (reportage from Australia) in London
Thanks for the Fish (reportage from Malta) in Viterbo
The children’s war (reportage from Serbia) in Viterbo
Nomen Omen in Viterbo
A hundred faces of women in Viterbo
She has taught Photography around Europe as an EEC European Trainer holding Courses financed by the European Union in Italy, England, Moldova, Latvia, Serbia and Slovenia.
She is a Photography Professor at Lorenzo de’ Medici International institute in Tuscania and at USAC (University Study Abroad Consortium) at Tuscia University in Viterbo.
She was a guest on Italian national TV programme Mi manda Rai 3 as an expert on the new frontiers of digital photography and has recently won the First prize at National Video competition People in Mind with her short video ‘My name is Andrea’.
Lietta is the founder and current President of “Scuola di Fotografia Click!” in Viterbo, Italy.
Francesco Galli was born in Viterbo (Italy) in1967. He has photographed in Italy and abroad in the following
fields: anthropology, architecture, archaeology, landscape and theatre. He graduated in Architecture at “La Sapienza”
University in Rome. In recent years his research has focused on urban and natural landscapes. Among others, he has
worked for Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Università della Tuscia, Kent University, British Columbia University, Odin Teatret, The Grotowski Institute, Teatro di Roma
www.francescogallistudio.com
Galli’s main publications:
RITORNO ALLA CASA DEL PADRE. L’Odin Teatret a San Sperate
Fondazione Pinuccio Sciola, 2023
GENIUS LOCI. Odin Teatret’s Home,
with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley; Odin Teatrets Forlag, 2020;
BOOK OF THE WINDS
with Iben Nagel Rasmussen; Odin Teatrets Forlag, 2019
THINKING WITH THE FEET. Actor’s techniques and theatre anthropology
with Vicki Ann Cremona and Julia Varley; contributions by Eugenio Barba and Chiara Crupi;
Odin Teatrets Forlag, 2017
LA SERPARA. Dialoghi tra arte e natura
edited by Marco Trulli; Viaindustriae publishing, 2017
A LIVING TRADITION. Works and projects by KPF Arkitekter, 2002 – 2012
edited by Marianne Ibler, texts by Robert McCarter & J.M. Cava; Aarhus, ARCHIPRESS M, 2012
LE CITTÀ PERDUTE. Una ricerca fotografica sui centri abbandonati nell’Alto Lazio
introduction by Dacia Maraini, texts by Giuseppe Romagnoli and Francesco Galli
Nepi, Varigrafica Alto Lazio, 2008
STUDIO COSTA 1973 – 2006 OPERE E PROGETTI
edited by di Maria Cristiana Costanzo; Venezia, Marsilio, 2007
UN TEATRO NEL PAESAGGIO. Fotografare O Thiasos TeatroNatura
with Sista Bramini, texts by Sista Bramini, Francesco Galli, Franco Lorenzoni, Francesca Ferri
Corazzano (Pisa), Titivillus Edizioni, 2007
SENTIERI D’ASCOLTO
texts by Stefano Gallerani e Francesco Galli; Roma, Editoria & Spettacolo, 2007
JOA Giochi tradizionali in Valle d’Aosta
edited by Viviana Rosi e Francesca Schiavon; Quart (Aosta), Musumeci Editore, 2003
NELLA VASCA DEI PESCI CHE SOGNANO. Immagini di teatro
introduction by Iben Nagel Rasmussen, text by Paolo Ruffini and Ferruccio Marotti
Bologna, I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, 2003
IL PONTE DEI VENTI. Un’esperienza di pedagogia teatrale con Iben Nagel Rasmussen
with Tony D’Urso, edited by Francesca Romana Rietti and Franco Acquaviva
Bologna, I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, 2001
Films:
THE BRIDGE OF WINDS. An experience of theatrical pedagogy with Iben Nagel Rasmussen, 2016
IL LAGO DI BOLSENA. Un paesaggio da svelare, 2015
LA MISURA FA IL SOLDO. Il taglio del bosco nel Viterbese, 2012
Selected solo exhibits:
2024 “A prescindere”, Museo di storia naturale, Foggia
2022 “Un fotografo alla scuola dello sguardo. Le fotografie dell’ISTA 2005-2021” Teatro dell’Unione, Viterbo, 18
2015. “In search of Identity. My City and the Mountain”, Bredgade Kunsthandel, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Le Città Perdute”, Babylon, Berlin, Germany
2014. “Places and Landscapes”, KPMG, Aarhus, Denmark
2012. “I giardini paralleli”, Sala dei Cantieri scalzi O Thiasos, Rome, Italy
2011. “Le città perdute” and “Brzezinka Landscapes”, (Padiglione Italia nel mondo, 54° Biennale di Venezia), Ita
lian Institute of Culture, Krakow, Poland
2010. “Privacy. Ritratti segreti”, XX Noir in Festival, Courmayeur, Italy
“Paesaggio con spettatore”, 53° Festival dei 2 Mondi, Spoleto, Italy
“El Puente de los Vientos”, Teatro Varasanta, Bogotà, Colombia
2009. “Tra acqua e terra”, Montalto di Castro, Italy
2005. “Il Ponte dei Venti. Un’esperienza di lavoro con Iben Nagel Rasmussen”,
II Festival Internazionale della Fotografia dello Spettacolo, San Miniato, Italy
“Nella vasca dei pesci che sognano”, Teatro Altera Pars, Athens, Greece
2003. “Nella vasca dei pesci che sognano”, Casa delle Letterature, Rome, Italy
“Joa”, Castello d’Ussel, Aosta, Italy
“Dead Cities”, Studio Soto, Boston, USA
2002. “Terra di Tuscia, luoghi e tradizioni”, Italian Institute of Culture, Athens, Greece
1997. “Due anni a Rebibbia”, Casa Circondariale femminile, Rome, Italy
1992. “I facchini di Santa Rosa” and “Il pellegrinaggio di San Vivenzio a Blera”,
Chalmers and Humanistiska Fakulteten, Göteborg, Sweden
1988. “L’osteria”, Humanistiska Fakulteten, Göteborg, Sweden
“No Nuke”, Sala Anselmi, Viterbo, Italy
Alireza Shadizadeh Photographer and researcher.
He has been the artistic director of Pishro Parsian Amrdad Institute since 2015 and since the establishment of this festival, it has been a permanent member of the policy-making council.
He has been selected as the Honorary Photographer of the Visual Arts of Iran and about 10 years ago he took an art history course at the University of Vienna.
And for about a few years, photography of the city of Vienna has begun its professional work under the name of collection among cities.
He has been a two-time main juri of the International 5Photo Award.
Sandrine Boyer Engel did not grow up with a camera always at hand. Nothing predestined her for the realm of images. Born in Detroit, USA and raised in France, she followed a well-defined path: law school, a world of rigour and precision. But her gaze was drawn elsewhere—to the unnoticed details, the silences, and the subtleties that tell another story.
She discovered photography late, almost by chance, during a trip to Egypt. Her language would be the image.
Since then, her eye has taken her from Paris to Lisbon, from Seville to Washington, from Dubai to unseen horizons, where photography reveals what words can only suggest.
Recognised in the world of high-end events, she captures the essence of meticulously orchestrated moments, from refined weddings with studied aesthetics to portraits that reveal a powerful identity.
This artistic vision was recognised in 2010 with a Special Prize at the Planches Contact Photography Festival in Deauville, France— a confirmation of what she already knew: a successful photograph reveals what must not fade.
Wataru Furuta is a photographer and graphic designer based in Tokyo.
While working at a financial systems development company, he graduated from the Waseda University Business Science Institute (now the Waseda Business School (Graduate School of Business and Finance)). He then transferred to an advertising film production company and started his creative career as a movie producer. The short film series he produced, “Burst the Earth,” has been officially invited to film festivals around the world, including onedotzero in London, the Melbourne International Film Festival, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. After producing many short films and commercial films, he began working as a director and cinematographer himself. He also began working in photography and graphic design.
Since 2014, he has started creating art works. His first series, the autobiographical photo series “The Boy and the Sea,” was exhibited at GALLERY SPEAK FOR in Daikanyama, Tokyo. The following year, he exhibited the photo series “GREEN GATE,” themed on Japanese forests and doors to other worlds, at the same gallery, and both were successful.
In advertising photography, he has worked on many main visuals for entertainment works such as movies, TV programs, and plays.
Furuta, who is known for his connections with the entertainment industry, has held planned photo exhibitions in collaboration with stage plays at GALLERY X BY PARCO in Shibuya and Laforet Harajuku, attracting more than 6,000 visitors. In recent years, he has been experimenting with new photographic expressions, and will be presenting new works in collaboration with Spain’s Monat Gallery at the Paris Art Fair in May 2025.
Major solo exhibitions include “The Boy and the Sea” at GALLERY SPEAK FOR (Tokyo, 2015) and “GREEN GATE” at GALLERY SPEAK FOR (Tokyo, 2016). Major group exhibitions include “KYOTOGRAPHIE KG+ JAPAN PHOTO AWARD INTUITION” (Kyoto, 2024) and “FUTURE STARS” at THE HOLY ART GALLERY (London, Athens, 2024).
He won the Excellence Award at the 2016 Japan Professional Photographers Society JPS Exhibition and was selected for the 2016 Japan Advertising Photographers Association APA Award in the advertising photography category. Selected for the 16th All Japan Monochrome Photography Exhibition by the AJAPS All Japan Photographic Society in 2017, and selected for the photography category of the 2024 Japan Advertising Photographers Association APA Awards.
https://www.watarufuruta.com
Born in Nara City in 1981.
Graduated from Vantan Design Institute, Department of Photography in 2000.
Began working as a photographer in 2004.
She is a professional photographer with extensive experience in the Japanese entertainment and film industry. I have worked with numerous celebrities and contributed to various film productions. In 2016, She appeared on NHK’s Bi no Tsuboto discuss the films of Yasujirō Ozu, sharing insights into his cinematic aesthetics.
She returned to Nara in 2024 and started a project to widely share the lesser-known charms of the region.
EXHIBITIONS
2006 Solo exhibition “We Live in a Beautiful World”
2013 Solo exhibition “A Butterfly’s Dream”
2013 Group exhibition “NTNY ISSUE2”, Towada Art Center
2014 Group exhibition “Art Photograph Group Show”, RECTO VERSO GALLERY
2025 Solo exhibition “NUD2025 level:1 YAGYU + Momoka Onishi”, Nara Mahoroba-kan, Nara Park Bus Terminal
Biography:
Touraj Aslani was born on Dec.26, 1973 in Kermanshah, Iran.
He has graduated in Graphics from Kermanshah conservatory and Film directing from Tehran Sooreh
University 1999.
He began to take photographs at the age of 10, and at the age of 14 he started his activities as an
experimental cinematographer with an 8mm camera.
He started his professional activities at age 25.
He has been Shooting more than 100 Documentary, Short, Animation, Fiction and Experimental movies.
In 2000 he became the youngest professional photographer in Iranian Cinema.
More than 50 film as Director of Photography for Iranian and Iraqi and Turkey cinema and Investor,
Executive manager and Producer of few fiction and documentary projects.
Include:
Filmography:
Ginkgo (Suspended Narrative) 2014 , 72min , Fiction , Feature Film
Gold Runner (Gold Carrier) 2018 , 86 min , Fiction , Feature Film
Landless (2020) , Touraj Aslani Third Feature film as Director , 86 min , Fiction , Feature Film
Producer:
Holy Bread ( Rahim Zabihi ) 2020
Landless ( Touraj Aslani) 2020
Shahrband (Farzad Foroughi ) 2018
Gold Runner ( Touraj Aslani) 2018
Angels don’t Fear the Darkness ( Masoud Arif Salih ) Product Iraqi Kurdistan 2015
Heritage ( Misa Molavi ) 2014
Ginkgo , Suspended Narrative ( Touraj Aslani) 2014
How green was our Valley ( Fereshteh Joghataei ) 2006-2009
The next day ( Rahim Zabihi ) 2006
Executive manager and Investors: Mosul, My Home ( Adalet R.Garmiany ) 2020
Breath ( Mona Seidmoradi ) 2013
Hatred ( Reza Dormishian ) 2011
Looking Through ( Maani Petgar ( 2007
Crossing the Dust ( Shawkat Amin korki ) Product Iraqi Kurdistan 2005
Narcissus Blossom ( Masoud Arif Salih – Hussein Hassan Ali ) Product Iraqi Kurdistan 2005
A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral ( Saman Salour ) 2004
Horse ( Mehdi Omid ) Product Iraqi Kurdistan 2003
The Butterflies Are Just a Step Behind ( Mohammad Ebrahim Moaiery ) 2001
Director of Photography
Features Films:(Date of shooting)
Landless ( Touraj Aslani) 2020 People’s Wedding ( Majid Tavakoli ) 2019 Swear ( Mohsen Tanabandeh ) 2018 Zahremar ( Javad Razavian ) 2018
In the Middle ( Siavash Asadi ) 2018
Truck ( Kambuzia Partovi ) 2017
14 July ( Hashim Aydemir ) Product Turkey 2016
Melancholy ( Morteza Atashzamzam ) 2015
The Dark Wind ( Hussein Hassan ) Product Iraqi Kurdistan 2015
There will be blood this Wednesday ( Hemase Parsa ) 2014
Ginkgo , Suspended Narrative ( Touraj Aslani) 2014
Lady ( Tina Pakravan ) 2013
Negar’s Role ( Ali Atshani ) 2013
Welcome to Tehran ( Reza Sobhani ) 2013
Lovely debris ( Mohsen Amiryoussefi ) 2013
Hatred ( Reza Dormishian ) 2011
Rhinos Season ( Bahman Ghobadi ) 2011
Final Whistle ( Niki Karimi ) 2010
Saint Petersburg ( Behruz Afkhami ) 2009
Farewell Baghdad ( Mehdi Naderi ) 2009
Not an illusion ( Torang Abedian ) 2009
No one knows about Persian Cats ( Bahman Ghobadi ) 2008
Whisper with the wind ( Shahram Alidi ) 2008
Lonely Tune of Tehran ( Saman Salour ) 2007
Hamoon-o- Darya ( Ebrahim Forouzesh ) 2007
A Time to Love ( Ebrahim Forouzesh ) 2007
The Bad Friend ( Abbas Ahmadi Motlagh ) 2006
The next day ( Rahim Zabihi ) 2006
Standing Alone ( Gholam Reza Ramezani ) 2006
10+4 ( Mania Akbari ) 2006
Crossing the Dust ( Shawkat Amin korki ) Product Iraqi Kurdistan 2005
He ( Rahbar Ghanbari ) 2004
Siavash Sadrazodi was born in Iran in 1971. Educated in France, he studied musicology at the Sorbonne, where he earned a master’s degree, as well as cinema, in which he holds a bachelor’s degree. Alongside his academic pursuits, he worked as a photographer’s assistant while developing a personal practice rooted in historical processes and visual experimentation.
After several years in North America, where he collaborated as an orchestrator in the field of film music, he returned to Iran and devoted himself fully to photography. His work, which blends experimental techniques, alternative printing methods, and plastic research, has been exhibited in both solo and group shows in Iran and abroad.
As a photographer, composer, and researcher, he has completed an essay on the phenomenology of photography and is currently working on other books focused on contemporary dance and cinema. His approach to the image—at the intersection of senses, forms, and ideas—privileges the intensity of vision over the surface of appearances.
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