ROHINA HOFFMAN | Embrace, 2023

Embrace is a book by Rohina Hoffman that reflects on the theme of uncertainty while combining two  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. The two projects are held apart by the central essay printed on blue paper in English and translated into Hindi. There are also small poems printed on smaller pages that encourage the reader to read, touch, turn and interact with the book. The design of the book as well as the decisions that went into producing it are very much a part of creating the  experience that is reflected in the photographic works.

BIO

Rohina Hoffman is an Indian-born American artist whose narrative work focuses on themes of identity, home, adolescence, and the female experience. Raised in New Jersey but now residing in California, Hoffman received her BS in Neuroscience and MD both from Brown University. She also studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. After years of practicing as a clinical neurologist, she now focuses on her artistic practice. Hoffman published her first monograph Hair Stories with Damiani Editore (February 2019) accompanied by a solo exhibition at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School. Hair Stories is held in many notable public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, Cleveland Institute of Art, and over 25 university libraries. Her second book, Embrace, with Schilt Publishing was just released October 2022 (Europe) and January 2023 (U.S.). A solo show of this work was exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography (April 2023.) In 2021, she was the winner of the Purchase Award with Atlanta Photography Group and several of her prints from her Generation 1.75 project were acquired by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Her photographs have been exhibited in juried group shows both nationally and internationally in venues such as The Center for Fine Art Photography, Griffin Museum, Atlanta Photography Group, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Los Angeles Center for Photography, Photo LA, and A. Smith Gallery. She has been published in Marie Claire Italia, F-Stop Magazine, Lenscratch, Shots Magazine, Dodho Magazine and Aesthetica Magazine among others.