"vivid, compelling and wordless artistry of Hassan Karimzadeh"

Dos vencedores do World Press, gostei do primeiro lugar na categoria gag cartoon para Hassan Karimzadeh, um cartoonista iraniano sem palavras.


O desenho que levou o prémio.






Hassan Karimzadeh has been a graphic designer, political cartoonist, and art director for journals and newspapers for more than ten years. Born in Tehran in 1973, he was imprisoned in the 1990s for a cartoon which featured a soccer player resembling the late Ayatollah Khomeini. He received a 10-year conviction, but with the assistance from Reporters Without Borders and many individual international cartoonists Hassan was released after two years in 1994.

Often distinctively free of captions, his work has appeared inmany graphic and cartoon exhibitions around the world. He published and illustrated the book Human Rights in 2004. He graduated from the Plastic Arts School & University of Art in Tehran. He is a member of Iranian Graphic Designers Society and the Association of Iranian Journalists. (daqui)