"Shadi Ghadirian's work addresses concerns of Iranian women of her generation, exploring ideas such as censorship, religion and modernity, often with a wry humour. The series 'Qajar' is based on a style of photograph made during Iran’s Qajar period (1786–1925). In those portraits, sitters posed with props representing their aspirations.
The sitters wear costumes that approximate Qajar fashion,
but the objects they pose with are jarringly modern and western –
a mountain bike, a stereo or a can of Pepsi."
Being Gelatin silver prints, a process dominant from the 1850-1880s, it is surreal seeing the contrast between tradition and modernity.
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