On 17 September 2022, at Mahsa Amini’s funeral ( a 22-year-old woman had been arrested by Iran’s morality police, for wearing her hijab “improperly”and fell into a coma aftre she was beaten inside the police van)
At Mahsa’s funeral, many women took off their headscarves as a sign of protest against Iran’s compulsory hijab policy, waving them in the air, shouting JIN, JIYAN, AZADI ( Woman, Life, Freedom).
At Mahsa’s funeral, many women took off their headscarves as a sign of protest against Iran’s compulsory hijab policy, waving them in the air, shouting JIN, JIYAN, AZADI ( Woman, Life, Freedom).
You and I are one
Which was soon adopted as the main slogan of the movement across the countryand beyond.
For Mona Naghib, a 8-year-old girl, shot dead by regime forces while walking home from school with her sister. Her sister tried to carry her to the hospital but she couldn’t make it
For decades, gender inequality and discrimination against women have been legally enshrined in Iran. Under Iran’s Islamic Penal code, Iranian women’s rights are severaly restricted, a form of gender apartheid. Women must comply with the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab laws from the onset of puberty, and they are unequal in matters of marriage, divorce, custody, inheritance and more.
My eyes are bleeding
In more than four decades, the Iranian women have fought courageously against many misogynist laws and state practices despite facing a totalitarian regime that has systematically killed, tortured, incarcerated, exiled and assulted human’s rights.
Mother!
Don’t mourn the loss of your child
We swear we will take his revenge
Don’t mourn the loss of your child
We swear we will take his revenge
As an Iranian woman, I have always lived with discrimination against women while as an Iranian artist it has been for years that I have predominantly dedicated my artistic journey to the discourse of repression and instrumentalization of the female body.
He aimed at my eye
“Hi, I am Ghazal Ranjkesh. I was only on my way back home. The last image my right eye recorded was the person’s smile when he shot me!”
“Hi, I am Ghazal Ranjkesh. I was only on my way back home. The last image my right eye recorded was the person’s smile when he shot me!”
My works are in a way very political; but how is it possible to be a woman who grew up in Iran and not become a politician?
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After what is happening in Iran, it is my duty to make heard the voices of Iranians who are fighting against violence by the Islamic regime at this moment in history.
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After what is happening in Iran, it is my duty to make heard the voices of Iranians who are fighting against violence by the Islamic regime at this moment in history.
Dad, they've reached a verdict.
Mine is execution by hanging.
Don't tell Mom.
Mine is execution by hanging.
Don't tell Mom.
For me, the paper is a battlefield, and the characters are my fighters. They don't always win, but at least they try.
Martyr won’t die
Iranians are a community in mourning
Child-killer Regim
One child murder per day by the IR regim since semtember 17, 2022
One child murder per day by the IR regim since semtember 17, 2022
Iran sinking in blood
Our true heroes are the nameless people
"Woman, Life, Freedom"; the three words that open a new and promising horizon not only for the Iranian society in its battle against theocracy, but also in the feminist struggle in the universal sense of the term. A slogan that goes beyond all kinds of gender and social class distinctions.
Woman Life Freedom
زن زندگی آزادی
زن زندگی آزادی
By using the old family photos I try to represent this repression that occurred over several generations and not only in the 40 years after the Islamic revolution.
_What’s your plan?
_Revolution.
_Revolution.
Bloodfall