20 street portraits of Iranian women wearing hijabs

Shadi Ghadirian - Iranian photographer and lover of women

The East is a delicate matter, as Comrade Sukhov said. But the east he is for that and for an amateur, that it can be very different. There is the east in the form of delicious island food, dinner squatting at a large family table in the village, the east in the form of the rising sun … And there is the east, where women walk, hiding their faces, where a brother kills a brother and people's houses are not decorated with silk and satin and rubbed homemade carpets, moth-eaten. Iranian photographer Shadi Ghadirian decided to show the world how he looks

"Women Walking" on the Street: A Women's Rights Movement in Toronto

"Dressed up like a walking woman!" - these words can be heard not only from the lips of bored grandmothers on the bench at the entrance. Much worse is when these words come from the lips of a strong and clearly aggressive man who approaches a girl in a park with no unequivocal intentions. "Dressed up like a walking woman!" is the "excuse" that is used even in rape courts. The women of Canada don't want to hear it anymore. This is why 1000 is frivolous

Woman in Islam: 25 photos of Muslim brides wearing wedding hijabs

Muslim girls look very elegant on their wedding day, but at the same time, the wedding hijab should remain a hijab - only the hands and face can be open. The forearms, neck, ears must be closed. The fabric of a Muslim bride's dress should not be transparent and not necessarily white, and the hijab itself should be loose enough. However, these restrictions do not seem to spoil the beauty of charming girls

From short skirts to veils: how Iranian women's fashion has changed over the past 110 years

“It is better to see once than hear a hundred times,” this proverb fits the images of Iranian women before and after the 1980 Cultural Revolution. It is hard to imagine that they once dressed as fashionably as Europeans, had the freedom of choice in clothing and makeup. How the image of an Iranian woman has changed from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day - further in the review

Iranian butterflies: a photo cycle about the life of Muslim women by Shadi Ghadirian

Shadi Ghadirian is a talented photographer from Tehran. Reflecting on the problems women face in Iran, she created a series of black and white photographs called “Miss Butterfly”. The image of a hermit weaving a web in her own home has become an eloquent symbol of the limitations women experience in everyday life