Nakeya Brown has added two more series of hair photography titled “Hair Stories Untold” and “If Nostalgia Were Colored Brown.” We can’t wait to tell you all about it. But first, here is some context about why we care about Brown’s work. Chimamanda Adichie caused quite a splash when she opened up about having a preference for […]
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Hair So Tasty You Can Eat It! Photographic Take on Adichie’s Hair Politics
Chimamanda Adichie does with narrative what Nakeya Brown does with photography. Both artists are captivated by the relationship between blackness, hair, and femininity. Whether both women know each other or not, it is certainly nice to think of their work as being in conversation. For Nayeka, hair is political. “By choosing to wear my […]
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