Welcome to Rooted, a campaign celebrating the ability of black hair and the launch of ‘Tallawah’ – an exhibition by photographer Nadine Ijewere and hairstylist Jawara Wauchope. Here, we explore what the fantastic thing about black hair is everywhere in the globe, from Jamaica to London and Latest York to the screens of Nollywood movies. 

After a choice of photographers from global collective Thursday’s Child responded to what masculinity looks like in 2019 for Behind the Masc: Rethinking Masculinity, we’ve got now enlisted a latest selection to contribute to Rooted: The Great thing about Hair. As with the remainder of the week’s content, the pictures below showcase the ability of black hair and every photographer’s images highlight different hairstyles and practices from all all over the world. 

Here, they reflect on the hair memories that shaped them and muse on the ability of black hair. 

What’s your earliest hair memory?  

Agatha Powa: My earliest memory is of my mum and what gave the impression of hours of painful combing. 

Fily (hairstylist): Quite a lot of hands in my hair.  

What’s the ability of black hair?  

Agatha Powa: Black hair is gorgeous. It’s got a lot history. So many shapes and forms. It creates bonds and breaks boundaries which shouldn’t be there in the primary place. It’s culture. It will possibly be a political statement. It‘s love; an elder giving their child’s hair the care it needs with a view to be healthy. It’s bonding; a reason to satisfy up together with your friends and braid one another’s hair. 

Fily: Black hair carries so much, it may be the beginning of a dialogue, be a social and political statement, and at the identical time, it teaches us about patience and self-care. 

What’s your earliest hair memory?

Cary Fagan: Well, for the primary time in five years I even have taken one side of my dreads out of their locs, and it’s a latest feeling. I even have some VHS documentation of the method entitled ‘shedding’.

My hair is bouncy – probably the healthiest it’s been without realising. I’m still not convinced that I’d cut my hair. I’ve had short hair for many of my life. Mockingly I’ve craved change and I feel having an asymmetrical style is the suitable thing to do, eventually, I’ll take the left side out too. 

What do you’re thinking that the ability of black hair is?

Cary Fagan: From my perspective, having long hair is a logo of insurrection. I at all times feel that I’m altering perception after I speak to individuals who have a look at me without words. My hair now represents royalty and delicacy – it takes time to maintain locs – there’s a patience added with the maintenance. 

What’s your earliest hair memory? 

Davey Adesida: My mother’s afro and pearl earrings. 

What do you’re thinking that the ability of black hair is? 

Davey Adesida: It’s beautiful and admired by all. Empowering. It’s a logo.

What’s your earliest hair memory?  

Jack Muffucci: My earliest hair memory is sitting in an empty tub while my dad cut my hair. I have to’ve been three or 4 years old. 

What do you’re thinking that the ability of black hair is?  

Jack Muffucci: The ability of black hair lies in its wealthy cultural history – hair is used as a method of self-expression. I feel black hair has the flexibility to remodel an individual into whoever they want to be. 

What’s your earliest hair memory?  

Julia Carbonell: I remember one among the primary times my aunt was cutting my hair because she was a hairdresser and she or he would at all times do mine, I used to be at her hairdresser’s and it was Christmas. I used to be very young and I saw a variety of presents hanging on a Christmas tree she had there, and I obviously thought they were for real so I began unwrapping them, with the surprise that there have been only carton boxes.

What do you’re thinking that the ability of black hair is? 

Julia Carbonell: As my friend Gabriela told me once while we were talking about her hair and the culture throughout it: ‘The ability of black hair is the liberty of speaking your culture through your genes.’

What’s your earliest hair memory? 

Marina Murasheva: I remember a small piece of my hair, certain with a small white ribbon, hidden in an old cranky envelope. It was very thin and soft. My granny cut it for herself as a memory. She passed away after I was 4.

What do you’re thinking that the ability of black hair is? 

Marina Murasheva: No black hair is identical, literally. In styling, growing, care, texture – all the pieces. 

What’s your earliest hair memory? 

Rahim Fortune: My earliest hair memories are around being a child living in Texas within the early 2000s and being obsessive about hair icons like Allen Iverson and Sean Paul. I even have been getting my hair braided since I used to be very young. I got here to know myself through various types of self-expression, hair being a giant one.

What do you’re thinking that the ability of black hair is?

Rahim Fortune: The ability in black hair comes first from our ancestors, who we represent once we wear natural hairstyles. Wearing my hair long and naturally gives me a heightened connection to myself, roots and community.

What’s your earliest hair memory?

Hanifah (model): My earliest hair memory is my hair being policed. My school forced my mum to chop my hair since it was a ‘distraction’. The identical thing remains to be happening in schools today.

What do you’re thinking that the ability of black hair is? 

Terry Paul: To me, the ability of black hair is beauty in its purest, natural form. Expression through your hair, whether that be in numerous styles or colors, due to versatility it allows. Your hair becomes your identity and your pride, so it’s about embracing the fantastic thing about it. Also continuing to interrupt the systematic oppression of what once was with black hair for the youth to see; being inspired, proud and appreciative of who we’re through our hair.

What’s your earliest hair memory? 

Donne-Marie Mason: My earliest memory of my hair was after I was about eight or nine years old and I wanted to start out plaiting my hair myself. My hair has at all times been my pride and joy and so vital to me, in order soon as I felt sufficiently old I desired to take control of my very own hair and get creative with it. I had been practicing doing plaits on my Girls World before that moment to get it perfect, so I couldn’t wait to be creative with my very own hair. I discovered it very empowering and I even have been taking care of my hair and hairstyles ever since.

What do you’re thinking that the ability of black hair is? 

Donne-Marie Mason: My hair is my beauty and I wear it like a crown. I even have at all times taken pride in my hair, it represents me, my personality and my culture and that’s where the ability comes from. It shines so brilliant. I feel that is what’s inside us and can at all times be inside our culture – pride, freedom to be creative, self-expression and self-love for our hair.

What’s your earliest hair memory? 

Wendy Sama: The one which I’m essentially the most conscious of is just my mother doing my hair after I was a toddler. Doing tiny, tiny braids, and adding multicolour pearls at the tip of every one, making noise with every move. 

What do you’re thinking that the ability of black hair is? 

Wendy Sama: The symbol attached to it. The fight for freedom, equality, and acceptance. Black hair was, and still is, a tool that will be used when we wish to be heard and seen.