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Iranian photographer

Shadi Ghadirian (born 1974; Persian: شادی قدیریان) is an Iranian contemporary photographer. Her work is influenced by her experiences as a Muslim woman living in contemporary Iran, but her work also relates to the lives of women throughout the world.

Through her work, she critically comments on the pushes and pulls between tradition and modernity for women living in Iran, as well as other contradictions that exist in everyday life. She explores the topics of censorship, religion, modernity, and the status of women.

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Ghadirian gained international recognition through the series Qajar and Like Every Day in 1998 and 2001.^[1] She is living and working in Tehran.

Early life and education

Shadi Ghadirian was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran.

After graduating high school in 1988, Ghadirian studied art and photography at Azad University in Tehran under Bahman Jalali and received her B.A. in photography.

In 2000, Ghadirian married th