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Iran’s photographer wins gold at Xposure 2026 in UAE
Held annually in the United Arab Emirates, the festival draws leading professional photographers, documentary-makers and visual artists, whose works are vetted by international juries across documentary, environmental, portrait, industrial and conceptual categories, IRNA reported.
His winning photograph, crafted in a documentary-art idiom and anchored in a nuanced reading of human and environmental themes, stood out among hundreds of submissions from across the globe. The jury awarded it the festival’s gold medal, the highest distinction of the event. Over nearly three decades, he has collected top honors at national cultural fixtures and international festivals, earning two global gold medals from competitions hosted in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Tajikistan, Germany, Thailand, Greece, Wales and the United Arab Emirates.
Beyond his exhibition record, Minabian has spent a decade lecturing in photography at university level. He is a full member of the Iranian Photographers Association, the Hormozgan branch of the Iranian Youth Cinema Society, the Hormozgan Visual Arts Association, the Iranian Cultural Heritage Photographers Association and the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP).