Strong Hair

Strong Hair is a collection of 100 looping portraits that merges the diversity and power of African hair with the blockchain. In Ethiopia, hairstyles are sculptures full of meaning. Sometimes just by looking at someone, you can identify their nation or tribe. Hair can be a social signal and a status symbol. Many of these local hairstyles are disappearing. When a hairstyle is lost, a visual language is lost with it — one that may never be repeated. Thousands of years of culture have created these looks.