Hoda Afshar is a visual artist and photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Hoda finished a Bachelor degree in Fine Art – Photography at Azad University of Art and Architecture in Tehran and began her career as a documentary photographer. She is currently a PhD candidate at the department of Art at Curtin University, and lecturer at the Photography Studies College.

In 2006 Hoda was selected by ‘World Press Photo’ as one of the top ten young documentary photographers of Iran to attend their Educational training program. Hoda has also been exhibiting locally and internationally since 2007 and has been shortlisted for prestigious photography awards such as the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prizes (2012) and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Prize (2013).