The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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© Composite: Edgar Su/Reuters
© Composite: Edgar Su/Reuters
© Composite: Edgar Su/Reuters
Afshar’s experiences as a young woman in Iran have shaped her artistic career in Australia, focusing her eye on the humanity within inhumane systems
When Hoda Afshar was a teenager, coming of age in theocratic and authoritarian Iran in the 1990s, she and her friends were repeatedly arrested and physically punished by the “morality police”, for wearing their hijabs incorrectly in public and for attending underground parties. “They used to put a few of us in small solitary confinement cells together for a night or two, it was very common for my generation to experience that,” she says.
“We are part of the nasl-e sukhteh, or ‘burned generation’; the generation born after the 1979 revolution, who had to pay the price for many of the transformations and changes that happened.”
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© Photograph: Adam Ferguson/The Guardian
© Photograph: Adam Ferguson/The Guardian
© Photograph: Adam Ferguson/The Guardian
As the prestigious award marks its 30th anniversary, this year’s nominees consider hidden human labour, life in war-torn Ukraine and the Buddhist concept of rebirth
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© Photograph: Carlos Ayesta/musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, photo Carlos Ayesta
© Photograph: Carlos Ayesta/musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, photo Carlos Ayesta
© Photograph: Carlos Ayesta/musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, photo Carlos Ayesta
The National Gallery of Victoria presents the first major Australian solo exhibition of the Melbourne artist, whose work references African studio photography, family archives, Catholic imagery and science fiction, while paying tribute to the myths and traditions of Dinka Bor culture in South Sudan.
Passage: The Art of Atong Atem will run from Friday until 14 June at the Ian Potter Centre in Federation Square. Entry is free
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© Photograph: Atong Atem/National Gallery of Victoria
© Photograph: Atong Atem/National Gallery of Victoria
© Photograph: Atong Atem/National Gallery of Victoria
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