Naseer Behbehani Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Mother Earth Photograph in Photography and Photo Manipulation Design

The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Naseer Behbehani for photography and photo manipulation design

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Mother Earth Photograph by Naseer Behbehani has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Photography and Photo Manipulation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the Silver A' Design Award

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

About Mother Earth Photograph

Mother Earth is a studio portrait photograph that presents the planet in human form as a woman in poor health. The makeup uses green, blue and brown tones to represent oceans, plants and soil. Dying flower petals are placed on the head of the model to suggest illness. The expression of the model conveys sadness and vulnerability. The lighting was created with one large octabox on the model and one light on the backdrop. The final image was refined with digital editing software. The photograph links pollution to human emotion and draws attention to climate change.

About Naseer Behbehani

Naseer was passionate about art from a young age. He was a caricature artist for a long period of his life. Win mani prizes in that field, and worked for a newspaper as a caricature artist for 2 years. 2006 he discovered his interest in photography. Since then, Naseer didn’t stop developing himself. He win many awards in photography, nationally and internationally. He sees photography as a way to discover humanity, the reason he specialized in portrait photography. As art is all about emotions according to Naseer, he thinks that art should unite us, since it speaks the language that makes us humans.

Award Record

With this recognition, Naseer Behbehani is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Photography and Photo Manipulation Design Award

The A' Photography Design Award is an international photography competition recognizing good photographic creations by best photographers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to photographers, photojournalists, advertising agencies and digital artists from all countries. Typical entries include portraits, landscapes, still lifes, photojournalism, fashion shots and architectural images. The awarded photography designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/photography

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/88302
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/88302
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!88302
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/252699
Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.instagram.com/naseerov

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Mother Earth Photograph
Function: Photograph
Category: Photography and Photo Manipulation Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Arts and Entertainment
Colors: Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Silver, Black and Gray
Images: 5

The Recognition

Laureate: Naseer Behbehani
Country: Kuwait
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2019 - 2020
Design ID: #88302

Credits

Team: Fatima Yousif and Dalal
Image Credits: Photographer Naseer Behbehani, Mother Earth, 2015.; Photographer Naseer Behbehani, Progress 1, 2015.; Photographer Naseer Behbehani, Progress 2, 2015.; Photographer Naseer Behbehani, Progress 3, 2015.

Design Details

Unique Properties: The goal is to transfer earth pollution suffering into human emotion, to grab people attention to a raising problem of modern life style.
Inspiration: When I was a kid winter used to be colder and longer. Climate is actually changing due to global worming. Mother earth is dying and we are the ones responsible for that. So I though to represent planet earth as a sick woman waring nature, with makeup inspired by oceans, plants and soil. I choose an African model, as for me, Africa is the closest place on earth to pure nature.
Research: How earth would look like in a human form is the main is the core of this project. So, I mainly used google to view other artist approach of this concept, to get inspiration. The I did sketches of my own to show them to the makeup artist so she could understand my vision. I decided to hire an African model since Africa is the most connected with nature than others. I used dying petals as a representation of sickness. The green, blue and brown ware used as the colors of nature.
Challenge: The hardest part of this project was to find an African model. At the time of making this project, modeling agencies wast not common. So finding a model of a specific look was difficult.
Realization and Technology: I sketched the idea for the makeup artist to understand the concept. The colors are representation of nature, and the dead flowers on the head of the model to show that she is dying. I asked the model to show vulnerability and sadness. I used one big octabox on the model and one light on the backdrop.
Operation and Interaction: Mother Earth photograph main perps is to engage with the viewers emotionally. So the best way to view this photograph is to look hard to the model's face and try to read her emotions.
Project Duration and Location: The photograph took around 3 hours for the makeup and shooting in studio and 2 hours of retouching. It was shot in Kuwait 2015.
Specifications: Camera used: Canon 5d Mark ii, with canon 85/1.2 @ s100, f9, ISO 50 Software used: Lightroom and photoshop
Keywords: Portrait, Earth, Studio, Photography, Makeup, Nature, Pollution, People, Woman