If the photo artist Hoda Afshar were a theatre director, she would be the collaborative and collegial kind who treats her performers as co-creators. Born in Tehran in 1983, four years after the revolution that led to Iran becoming an Islamic republic, Afshar’s ambition was to be an actor. Her generation had grown up performing two identities, and her country’s dictatorship and morality police still today enforce a split between how the public and the private self behave.