• Issue
  • Mar 01, 2024

Up Close: Hoda Afshar

HODA AFSHAR, Untitled #4, from the series In Turn, 2023, pigment photographic print, 169 × 128 cm. Courtesy the artist.

“Women, life, freedom.” This was the slogan adopted by thousands of Iranians who took to the streets in September 2022 after Jina Mahsa Amini, aged 22, died in police custody following her arrest for improperly wearing her hijab.