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2nd Place 2024 People

Self-Portrait

  • Photographer
    Ayla Hashemi
  • Prize
    2nd Place in People

Sometimes I feel I know who I am, and sometimes I feel like a stranger to myself. I've created a self-portrait with a 'hole' to symbolize openness to change and growth. Just as a blank canvas awaits an artist's touch, I leave room for transformation, acknowledging that our self-perceptions are ever-evolving.

Ayla Hashemi is an artist. Since she was a child, she imagined herself as a painter and spent all her free time learning different techniques. Ayla studied painting at the Central Tehran Branch University in 2013. After graduation, she joined a Digital Photography course at Tehran Institute of Technology in 2015, where she felt her first passion was photography. And after that, she started her new path with love and passion. Ayla works on personal projects, and the main focus is on conceptual photography, portrait, and animal photography.