He was presented one of the three prizes awarded for third place for his collection entitled “Somalia - 3 Decades of Civil War”, the contest’s website announced on March 9.
The Japanese photographers Noriko Hayashi and Kohtaro Miyata won the two other awards for third place.
The Serbian photographer Goran Tomasevic won the first prize for his photo collection on Syria.
Fatemi is the representative of Panos Pictures, a photo agency specializing in the global social issues, driven by the vision and commitment of its photographers and staff.
This edition of the Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards was on the theme the dignity of human beings and nature.
Fatemi has won several national and international awards including a silver medal from the Delaware Photographic Society in the United States (2006); and a gold medal in both the Asahi Shimbun International Competition in Japan (2005 and 2006) and the China International Photojournalism Contest (2007 and 2009).
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