For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Portrait category: Sima Choubdarzadeh.
Originally from Iran and now based in Berlin, Sima is an award-winning documentary photographer with a background in philosophy. For the past decade, her work has focused on migration, identity, and resistance, often centering people living through tension and change.
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We caught up with Sima to ask her some questions about her life and work—check out our full interview below!
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