Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran’s leading contemporary photographers. Born in Tehran in 1974, just a few years before the Islamic Revolution, she came to the limelight in the late 1990s with her Untitled Qajar series, and since then has become one of the most outstanding photographers of her generation. Ghadirian’s own life and work has been shaped by the restrictions of post-revolutionary Iran. Her pro-vocative and enlightening body of work tests the limits of freedom and expression and mirrors the concerns of her generation: the yearning for liberty and for a more colourful life. This expanded, second edition monograph reveals the evolution of her mastery, from the concentrated stillness of the black and white Untitled Qajar series, to the colourful, still lifes, Nil Nil. Her more recent work, Seven Stones, is a prophetic reflection on contemporary geopolitics. Throughout her career, Ghadirian has negotiated the tightrope between the personal and the public, tradition and modernity, confession and art, documentary and fiction. Ghadirian’s oeuvre is a spirited wink at authority. With witty parodies of domesticity, she neatly side-steps both restrictions and expectations, revealing her uniqueness and keen aesthetic sense.