Eric Grigorian was awarded Second Place in the 60th Annual Pictures of the Year International 2003 competition in the Magazine Division / Spot News for "By His Father's Grave"

Surrounded by soldiers and villagers digging graves for victims of that morning's earthquake, a young boy clings on to his dead father's pants as he squats by the freshly dug grave where his father is about to be burried.
That morning a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Ghazvin Province of Iran 300 miles from the capital Tehran. Dozens of villages were completely destroyed killing hundreds and devastating the lives of thousands of Iranians. This series of photos are from the village of Changooreh the day of the earthquake and also the day after. Approximately one hundred villagers died in this one village.

This photograph was also awarded World Press Picture of the Year 2002