Lectures, Judging and Speaking Engagements

Hoss is recognised as one of the most creative portrait photographers of his time, and is regularly called upon to judge at national and international qualification panels and competitions, and to give masterclasses and lectures to other photographers, as well as critiquing work to help other aspiring photographers.

He is an approved Mentor with the MPA, helping photographers improve their photography to achieve or advance their professional qualifications. He is also an approved judge on the MPA qualifications board.

If you would like Hoss to speak or judge at your event then please enquire about his availability.

Book Hoss for your event.

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2014 May Art Plus – Dubai – Concept

Art Plus of Dubai invited Hoss to give a two-day photography masterclass to professional photographers on the Concept of lighting and posing.

Art Plus

 

 

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Hamdan International Photography Awards – Dubai

Hoss announces the Hamdan International Photography Award Grand Prize Winner. Hoss. He is the only Iranian and the first to have gained the Fellowship of Master Photographers Association and British Institute of Professional Photography. With many national and regional awards.

Son of the Iranian Film Star Mohsen Mahdavi he has made his mark in the UK by also becoming the President Of the International Master Photographers Association and the Chairman of the Board of Directors 2013. Hoss has also received an award for services the to the MPA, only the second time this award has ever been awarded.

Hoss was to be one of nine judges from around the world. Judges were from Holland, Italy, USA, India, and the UK. " I was proud to have been selected to judge internationally," says Hoss. HIPA is the richest photography award in the world. Other judges included the Editor of the Guardian Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine Photography Editor, and Condé Nast Traveller Magazine Editor - a very prestigious gathering!  HIPA's hospitality was second to none. The image was in recognition of the visit of Dubai's Minister of Culture.

HIPA - Hamdan International Photography Awards

Britsh Journal of Photography

Islamic Arts Magazine

Al-Ahram Weekly

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2014 Cannes International Festival of Fashion Photography

After being invited to Cannes, for the French Fashion Photography Exhibition, Hoss mingled with many of Frances greatest fashion photographers; the work was stunning. This international flavour is evident in Hoss’s photography.

www.festivalphotomode.com/

 

 

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2013 – June- Market Maker

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Tracy and Hoss were asked by the MPA to give a lecture to other professionals, to teach them how to market their businesses.

 

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Hoss judging MPA and BIPP Awards

I had the pleasure and honour of judging the London and Essex Region MPA & BIPP regional Photography Awards last night. High standard of competition and very close finals made it a real challenge to choose the winners. Well done to all of the members that entered and congratulations to the winners. The venue was at the Halfway House.

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2012 April Hoss presents True Colours Photographic Lecture at Epson

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The MPA invites Hoss to present the True Colours lecture on portraiture at Epson UK.

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