Afro hairstyles are not insignificant. They carry with them a history, a legacy, cultural pride, and freedom of self-expression. It was with this in mind that Dana, a film student at Concordia University, invited me to collaborate on her course project for “Introduction to Black Studies.” She wanted to explore these hairstyles as forms of resistance, identity, and cultural transmission. Over the course of six months, we exchanged ideas, reflected, and developed together a visual language capable of doing justice to this richness. The diversity of Afro haircuts and styles is far greater than what a single series can contain. These portraits offer only a fragment of it, but each image has been carefully conceived to represent, without reducing. Art has always been a medium of resistance, and hair is an integral part of it.
A huge thank you to the models@jerb.ear00@iines.es@alexia_ndr@sleepwebsite@trinity.dlaminii
Art Direction: Bénédicte Brocard & Dana El Gewely
Photos: Bénédicte Brocard
Retouching: Béatrice Léveillé
Assistant/Intern: keyshae64
MUA: Ruth Robertson
Model Casting: Dana El Gewely
