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Mohammad Kheirkhah Zoyari also known as "Moe Zoyari"^[1] (born 24 June 1986) is an Iranian-American photographer who worked for United Press International, and British Broadcasting Corporation from 2005 to 2015. He started his work as a photographer at the age of 14. After covering Iran's nuclear program, earthquakes, and political turmoil, he expended to cover events in Middle East, Europe and the Unites States. At the age of 21 he won the Award of Excellence Picture of the Year International.^[2] His photos have been published in national, and international journalist including Newsweek, Time, Le Figaro, among others. Mohammad left Iran for good after the turbulent aftermath of Iranian presidential election, 2009 and went to Afghanistan for 44 days to be an embedded journalist with U.S. Army, and is now based in San Francisco, California. He is a photo contributor to Associated Press, and a photography writer for Deutsche Welle.

Awards

Invitee at The White House for the annual Instagram Meet – 2015
Grand winner of New York Times photo hunt in Brooklyn, New York 2015
Best photographer of the year (PDNedu) – 2012
Iran’s best documentary photographer – Image of The Year Publication – 2008
Award of excellence from Missouri School of Journalism (Picture of The Year) – 2007

Exhibits & Lectures

Guest lecturer at College of San Mateo – California 2011
Photo Exhibition of Forgotten Colors – Sunnyvale Public Library, California 2010
Photo Exhibition at University of Putra – Malaysia 2009
Photo Exhibition of 30 Years of Iranian Photography, Monnaie de Paris, France 2009
Guest lecturer – Faculty of Social Sciences, Tehran University, Iran 2009
Manager of a week long workshop for Iranian photographers, Tehran 2008
Photo Exhibition of Difficulties of Being a Woman in Iran, Oldenburg, Germany 2007
Photo Exhibition of Just For Foreign Policy, New York, NY 2005

Publications

Exile: A photo book featuring Iran, India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, France, Italy, Germany, and the U.S. (2012) ISBN: 978-0-9857770-1-2

Websites

References

^ So his website http://www.Zoyari.com
^ The photo is available at Picture of the Year International Website

[1] So his website http://www.Zoyari.com

[2] The photo is available at Picture of the Year International Website

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