Iran's Hossein Fatemi becomes best '09 photojournalist

Award-winning Iranian photographer Hossein Fatemi has been selected as the country's Photojournalist of the Year.

The 29-year-old photographer was chosen by 100 Iranian photojournalists, who voted him as Iran's 2009 Photojournalist of the Year, Fars News Agency reported.

Fatemi was granted the same title in 2005 and 2006. He was also selected as the top AFP and Reuters photojournalist in 2006.

Fatemi, who is currently working with the United Press International (UPI), has documented war scenes in Georgia, Afghanistan and Lebanon.

He has extensively photographed in Iran and Pakistan as well.

Fatemi started his work in 1977 and his photographs have been widely published in the world's best-known magazines and newspapers including Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, the Guardian, The Washington Post and Paris Mach.

He has received the 2006 Silver Medal of the Delaware Photographic Society, the Silver Medal of China's 2007 International Photojournalism Contest, the Gold Medal of the 2005 and 2006 Asahi Shimbon International Competition and the Photographic Society of America (PSA) Gold Medal at the 2009 International Virtual FC Quilmes photography festival in Chile.

For more information and photos by Hossein Fatemi visit hosseinfatemi.com.