Whistleblowers, children and stateless men: The artist telling stories one image at a time
The Sydney Morning Herald · Will Cox ·
In a new exhibition in Melbourne, bursts of colour typify Hoda Afshar’s humanistic photography, often strikingly at odds with its subject.
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Bursts of colour typify Hoda Afshar’s compassionate and humanistic photography, often strikingly at odds with its subject.
The first room of a/part, Afshar’s new show at Buxton Contemporary, curated by Charlotte Day and Shanysa McConville, presents a series of self-anonymised portraits of Indigenous children with experience of incarceration. The portraits are bursting with personality and colour. Faces are obscured by flowers, hands and clothing, and in one case, full Joker make-up. More than one flips the bird. They’re kids after all.
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