Bamako Tag

Photographer Nybé Ponzio celebrates the sweetness and cultural importance of Black hairstyles in his series ‘Afrohair’ “A straightforward example,” begins Paris-born, Mali-based photographer Nybé Ponzio. “Being gap-toothed in Europe is contrary to the sweetness standards. In Africa it is an indication of elegance to the purpose where some people go thus far as to create this gap between their teeth.”  Ponzio is talking concerning the cultural differences he experienced while growing up in Bailly-Romainvilliers, a small town within the suburbs of Paris, and Bamako, Mali – his home country and where he has been living since 2021. The divergence of thought had a heavy impact on him. “There have been things inside me that...