The hair salons of Lewisham. Part 1

These are the beginnings of what, as I am becoming more aware, is going to be a very large collection of photos.

The first three are within a 250 metre stretch of road:

What I like about Brazilian beauty style is that their sign is the colour of açaí, a Brazilian superberry from the Amazon normally eaten as a frozen dessert and said to give energy and sexual virility:

And around the corner:

 

 

An exploration of London's everyday superdiversity. Through hair.

The urban landscape in which we live both shapes and is shaped by our everyday actions and, crucially, the bodies that carry out those actions.  Nowhere is this more apparent than in the super-diverse city of London.  In the city, where over 300 languages are spoken in schools, where some of the most deprived areas neighbour some of the wealthiest and where great swathes of former social housing is being regenerated and, in some cases, gentrified, this diversity is visible in the markets, the restaurants and cafés and the places of worship, in the clothes that we wear, in the newspapers we read and where we go to get our hair done.

In order to explore London’s everyday superdiversity and how it is reflected in the built landscape, over the next few weeks I am going to try to photograph every women’s hair shop and salon in the borough of Lewisham.