Hoda Afshar – Speak the Wind Image-Text performance sportswear

performance sportswear

usually in black and white

The art in this book speaks to a time when pot was smoked with optimism

Sasha Phyars-Burgess

the first edition quickly sold out and appeared on many books of the year lists

Hoda Afshar – Speak the Wind Image-Text performance sportswearOn 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