[The Guardian] Women behind the lens: ‘When your sister does your hair, you don’t need a mirror’

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[The Guardian] Women behind the lens: ‘When your sister does your hair, you don’t need a mirror’

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Women behind the lens: ‘When your sister does your hair, you don’t need a mirror’

Photographer Darlyne Komukama and her friends set up a roving hair salon for Black women to ‘convene, connect and converse’

This photo was taken as part of an art project called the Salooni that I created with three other Ugandan women: Kampire Bahana, Aida Holly-Nambi and Gloria Wavamunno.

The Salooni explores the idea of Black hair practices as systems of knowledge through which culture and survivalist strategies are passed from generation to generation.

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