Ali Sooteh
- Visual Journalist
- Documentary Photographer
Selected Recognitions
- NVP Development Grant 2017
- Pulitzer Center Grantee
Ali Sooteh is an Iranian photojournalist, based in Shiraz, Iran.
Since 2002, he worked with various local news agencies and dailies, and from 2013, he gradually shifted his focus from news to documentary photography and started to work on in-depth environmental projects.
Aside from receiving over 45 local awards and recognition, Sooteh’s photographs have been published in many media outlets, flourished galleries’ walls, and became part of 40 books. In 2017, he won the NVP Images Developing Grant for his climate change project with a focus on deforestation and subsequently became their fellow for a duration of 16 months. In early 2019, he had a major car accident while working on a project and was hospitalized for 3 months and spent another 6 months of recovery at home. In March 2020, he joined NVP Images as an Associate Photographer.
Walking On A Blade
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Selected Projects
Project Location | Middle East, Iran, Rasht Production Date | 2022-08-27 Houshang Ebtehaj, a distinguished Iranian poet whose small but influential body of work made him a major figure in his own country and in world literature, died on Wednesday in Cologne, Germany. He was 94.The body of…
Project Location | Middle East, Iran, Rasht Production Date | 2020-11-12 – (2020 Grant recipients of Pulitzer Center) Afraz and Erfan live in the city of Rasht in the province of Gilan, in the north of Iran. Before they met, each had been playing music on his own. Then, in 2016, a mutual…
Project Location | Middle East, Iran, Rasht Production Date | 2019-06-28 – (2020 Grant recipients of Pulitzer Center) Ms. Azadeh Mahjoub is 39 years old. In 2012, she set up a refuge for injured animals (often dogs and cats) in the suburbs of the city of Rasht (Lakan Shahr region), in the…
