Our followers voted Iranian photographer Hossein Fardinfard’s image as their favourite of the recent Guardian Editor’s Pick gallery of the best Portrait of Humanity entries so far. Taken in Tbilisi,the image depicts a scene from a national holiday in Georgia, with girls dressed in traditional costume. It captures a moment of togetherness and community, and values at the heart of Portrait of Humanity. Fardinfard,now based in the Netherlands, found photography via an unconventional route. Having studied cartography, and Geomorphology and IT,he pursued a career as a web developer before discovering his aptitude for the art form at the age of 30. Initially interested in street photography, his focus eventually shifted onto documentary photography and portraiture. He’s currently undertaking photography research at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and Holland. What are your key interests as a photographer? Social observation,human rights, and identity. I’m currently working on some long-term projects, and like the Post-Soviet Generation project I’m doing in Georgia,which is approximately changes that the collapse of the Soviet Union has spelled for …
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