Iran is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations and the blossoming of Persian literature, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, mathematics and art became major elements of Muslim civiliza…

Iranian photographer Shadi Ghadirian lives and works in Tehran. Her photographs, though at first glance somewhat humorous, reflect what she sees as “the duality and contradiction of life.” After her marriage, inspired by her wedding gifts, Ghadirian photographed her series Like Every Day in which each of these photographs depicts a figure draped in patterned…

Photo: Akbar Mehrinezhad