Shadi Ghadirian uses her photographs to examine the situation of women in Iran.
The Ghajar series looks back to the era of the Qajar dynasty who ruled the country from 1781 to 1925, using clothes from the turn of the last century to dress women, and made them pose against a traditional background but with modern “anomalies” in their hands: a can of Pepsi, a vacuum cleaner, a newspaper.
In Like Everyday she photographs various fabric versions of the burqa without a person wearing them, but where the eyes is a kitchen tool: an iron, a teapot, a broom, a cheese grater, etc.
About Shadi Ghadirian and Photography in Iran.
Check also Hussein Chalayan and Alicia Framis‘s take on the burqa.
Related: Sport headscarves for Muslim girls.