Photographer Marinka Masséus beautifully captures the images of Iranian women as they cast off the head coverings they are obligated to wear.
Iran is currently one week into the country’s greatest unrest in a decade. What began with working class youths in Mashad protesting over economic turmoil has become more pointedly political, with citizens countrywide calling for the removal of president Hassan Rouhani, and other measures. Meanwhile, Iranian women have undertaken a more subtle form of protest against an everyday form of oppression: compulsory hijabs.