Hair and Time
Hair & Time is the first publication in a series. This publication is composed of portraits, illustrations, and text that explore people's relationships with their hair and hair’s reflection of impermanence and shifting life circumstances. Since the start of the pandemic, I observed how often people talked about or shared the constant change occurring with their hair, sometimes intentional choices or forced changes due to lockdown. Although I've always been fascinated by the diversity of choice and genetics of hair, it was these conversations during lockdown that inspired me to explore these ideas through design in this publication. I am drawn to photographing hair through film and digital photography because it is a biological, genetic, and gendered part of life; it is also ritualistic, cultural, and symbolic. In this first publication of the series, the photographs and stories are split into three chapters: transformation, connection, and ritual. While it was often a struggle to safely photograph others, each photoshoot was increasingly meaningful because it offered me and the subjects the human connection we are all desperately seeking. In creating this book through personal portraiture and interviews, I aim to represent and help the subjects and viewers explore ideas of the impermanence and persistence of time through hair.
