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Bronze 2023 Book / Fine Art

Embrace

  • Photographer
    Rohina Hoffman
  • Prize
    Bronze in Book / Fine Art

In Embrace, Los Angeles based photographer Rohina Hoffman reflects on the theme of uncertainty while combining two of her photographic projects. In Gratitude, made during the pandemic, is a typology of portraits celebrating food and family and how we find comfort in times of unease. Generation 1.75 is a visual memoir of identity, belonging, and the complexities of acculturation.

Rohina Hoffman is an Indian-born American artist whose narrative work focuses on themes of identity, home, adolescence, and the female experience. Rohina received her BS in Neuroscience and MD both from Brown University. She also studied photography at the RISD. After years of practicing as a clinical neurologist, she now focuses on her artistic practice. She is the author of two books, Hair Stories (2019, Damiani) and Embrace, (2023, Schilt Publishing) and has exhibited widely. In 2021 she was the winner of the High Museum Purchase Award with Atlanta Photography Group.