Everyday Series by Shadi Ghadirian (Ayo Haruna)

Shadi Ghadirian was born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran. She is a photographer who continues to live and work in Iran. Ghadirian studied photography at Azad University (in Tehran). After finishing her B. A., Ghadirian began her professional career as a photographer. Her work is intimately linked to her identity as a Muslim woman living in Iran. Her art also deals with issues relevant to women living in other parts of the world. She questions the role of women in society and explores ideas of censorship, religion, modernity, and the status of women. She seems to mock the typical stereotypes that is associated with women in her pictures. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across Europe, and the U.S.A although some of her work is censored in her birth country, Iran.