The Fold - Hoda Afshar photo books creating local flavours with a

creating local flavours with a sense of urgency

for the quality of the research done and the originality of the proposal

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having in mind the works of the likes of Henry David Thoreau

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The Fold - Hoda Afshar photo books creating local flavours with aThe Fold is a critical visual and psychological investigation into the enduring legacy of Orientalist and colonialist photographic practices, and the ways in which these gazes continue to shape how bodiesparticularly veiled Islamic bodiesare seen, archived, and consumed. This new body of work by Iranian artist Hoda Afshar takes as its starting point the vast archive of Gatan Gatian de Clrambault (18721934), a French psychiatrist and photographer who,