HODA AFSHAR

Hoda Afshar is a Melbourne-based artist and scholar whose photographic practice straddles the line between staged image and reality. Born in Iran, Afshar, who won the 2015 National Portrait Prize and the 2018 Bowness Photography Prize, explores the image as a means for presenting new narratives. Her latest series, exhibited at Primavera 2018, is based on her extraordinary travels to Manus Island.

AS A VERY YOUNG ARTIST YOU WERE SELECTED BY THE prestigious World Press Photo as one of the top ten young photographers in Iran in 2006. Can you share the technical and philosophical approaches you began with in your practice and how they have contributed to your evolution as an artist?

I have always been interested in the intrusive nature of the camera and its ability to document and make visible