• Back view of a woman wearing an elaborate headdress with sticks and decorative elements, resembling a sunburst, on dark hair.
  • A person with metallic face paint and a microphone headset wearing shiny silver clothing, standing in front of a mirror, with another similarly dressed person in the background, in an indoor setting.

Alex Huda is a Canadian-born, South Asian writer, photographer, and filmmaker who explores the depth of identity and belonging through portraiture and film.

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Resurrecting Monsters: How Archives Can Fuel Radical Storytelling


When I transformed 18th-century Japanese monster scrolls into futuristic identities for Hong Kong's Voidpunk community, the archive became a living collaborator.

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How I Got a Photo Book Publishing Deal

My dream job was pretty simple: travel the world, photograph diverse cultures, and get a photo book publishing deal that gets featured in The New York Times. Very specific, very clear, but also very hard to achieve.