Artist Feature

Hairstyling is such a tender practice. It is the first art form I learnt from my mum, grandmother, and sisters. “Nwanne M Nwaanyị,” the title of this series, means ‘sister’ in my mother tongue, the Igbo language. The hair salon is a sanctuary where, in the in-between and the undone, we finally get to be soft when we are expected to be so much more everywhere else. Through this lens, the series ...