Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born woman who uses images of Islamic women wearing chadors in black and white contrast photography to depict rebellious aspects of women in the Islamic Revolution. She does not directly photograph the images, but she directs every single one. She used her experience from when she returned to Iran as an adult after living in Los Angeles, which she expressed to Neda Ulaby who published the interview on the National Public Radio website. Neshat expressed "Men no longer made eye contact with her. Cosmopolitan Tehranian women who'd worn mini-skirts during her youth had become graphic shapes on the street" which she heavily reflected in her art by having the women all wear black chadors and the men wearing all white. Her political statements were made through the women often having guns in the images and representing them as powerful, resilient figures. I appreciate how Neshat made them the center of attention. She writes on the images as well in Farsi which I found are from rebellious female poets, which adds to the political and feminist rebellious statements in a powerful, yet beautiful way. 

http://reinterpellations.web.unc.edu/about/neshats-rebellious-silence/

https://www.npr.org/2015/05/18/407671343/artist-shirin-neshat-captures-irans-sharp-contrasts-in-black-and-white

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/allegiance-with-wakefulness/