Hoda Afshar: Speak The Wind (Signed)

On the islands in the Strait of Hormuz, off the southern coast of Iran, there is a common belief that the winds can possess a person, bringing illness and disease. The existence of similar convictions in some African countries suggests that the cult may have been brought to Iran from southeast Africa through the Arab slave trade. This history is rarely spoken about but these winds and the traces they have left on the islands and their inhabitants are the touchstone for Hoda Afshar's Speak The Wind. Through her subtle and perceptive images of the extraordinary landscapes, the people and their rituals, Afshar's beautiful and complex book attempts to picture the wind and its psychic entanglements, to form a visible record of the invisible.

Hoda Afshar will be in conversation online with Photographers' gallery Director Brett Rogers Wednesday 27 October 13.00-14.00, book a ticket here.

Title: Speak The Wind
Publisher: Mack, 2021
Author: Hoda Afshar
Photographer: Hoda Afshar
Graphic Design: -
Format: Softcover
Size: 26.5 x 22 cm, 168 pages
ISBN: 9781913620189
Edition: -