Shadi Ghadirian Issa Rose
Shadi Ghadirian Issa Rose 'Being a woman in Iran is hard, and working as a woman photographer is even harder' - Shadi Ghadirian. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the US,…
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Shadi Ghadirian Issa Rose
'Being a woman in Iran is hard, and working as a woman photographer is even harder' - Shadi Ghadirian. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the US, and her work has been collected by museums worldwide. Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran's leading contemporary photographers.
Women in traditional clothing pose with items such as a mountain bike - permitted a hundred years ago, and now forbidden to women. She came to the limelight in the late 90s with her Qajar series, in which she examines the paradoxical position of women in Iran. Ghadirian's oeuvre is a spirited wink at authority.
With witty parodies of domesticity, she neatly sidesteps both restrictions and expectations.