Alex Huda is a Canadian-born, South Asian photographer who explores the depth of identity and belonging through portraiture and speculative fiction. He completed his graduate studies at The Creative School of Toronto Metropolitan University, where he was featured on the Top 30 Under 30 list. He began his career as a trainee producer on numerous feature films and TV series, including the Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Into the West, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, and Little House on the Prairie for Walt Disney.

He wrote, produced and directed an award-winning short film, Call Me A Paki (2005), which chronicles his confrontation with racism, his struggle to hide his heritage, and ultimately, his reclamation of cultural identity. The film had its world premiere broadcast on CBC Television and was screened at over 20 festivals. His photo book, Love Wins (2013), about the separation wall in Israel and Palestine was featured in The New York Times and nominated for the Palestine Book Award.

In 2015, he started teaching instant film photography in schools across South East Asia and currently teaches film and media studies at an international school in Hong Kong. He created a series of autobiographical visual storytelling projects, Alex in Lotusland (2018), The Unapologetic Traveler (2022), and Alex in Wonderland (2024), which were all nominated for the prestigious Webby Award. His debut novel, Brown Boy Barely Blossoms was produced by the Canadian publishing house, Iguana Books (2023).

In 2025, he received the Director’s Fellowship, to study Documentary Practice: Visual Storytelling at the International Center of Photography in New York, where he developed his long-term project Love Like a Monster - part documentary, part speculative fiction about Voidpunks; a radical counterculture in Hong Kong. This project was awarded both the Jury Top 5 and an Honorable Mention in the Analog/Film Portrait category at the 2025 International Photography Awards, and an Honorable Mention at the 2025 Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards.


AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2025 Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards - Honorable Mention (Culture category)

2025 International Photography Awards - Jury Top 5 Award + Honorable Mention (Analog/Film Portrait category)

2025 Director’s Fellowship - International Center of Photography, New York

2024 Create and Explore Grant - Canada Council for the Arts

2024 Webby Award - Nominee, Alex in Wonderland

2023 Webby Award - Honoree, The Unapologetic Traveler

2022 Webby Award - Nominee and Honoree, The Unapologetic Traveler

2018 Webby Award - Nominee, Alex in Lotusland

EXHIBITIONS, FORUMS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2025 - Holok’s Voidpunk Prequel, Eslite Spectrum - in collaboration with Art-Tech Talks, Hong Kong

2025 - Beyond Human: The Rise of Voidpunk, Art-Tech Talks, Eslite Spectrum, Hong Kong