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Anachronistic photography from Iranian photgrapher Shadi Ghadirian. #photography #iran #women Qajar Dynasty, Pierrot Clown, Lee Miller, Saatchi Gallery, Iranian Women, Foto Art, Female Photographers, Museum Of Fine Arts, British Museum

Shadi Ghadirian was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. She received a BFA in photography from Azad University, and then began a professional career as a photographer. Ghadirian is inspired by the duality and contradiction she witnesses in Iran. Her Qajar Series depicts women clothed in nineteenth-century garments, photographed against backdrops typical of studios of that period, but with the inclusion of a modern anomaly, such as a mountain bike, newspaper, or Pepsi Cola can. This juxtaposition…

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