J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere was born in 1930, in Ovbiomu-Emai in south-western Nigeria. At the age of twenty, he bough himself a modest Brownie camera on the advice of a neighbour who taught him the rudiments of photography. In 1951, he regularly wrote the same letter to the Ministry of Information and two years later, his persistence gained him a job as a darkroom assistant. In 1961, he became a studio photographer for the first African television station.
Since 1967, he has been a member of the Nigeria Art Council, which organizes festivals of visual and living arts. During a festival in 1968, he took his first photographs devoted to Nigerian culture with his 6 x 6 cm Rolleiflex, always in black and white.From then on, for a period of thirty years now, he has travelled throughout the country in pursuit of his subjects, which are organized by theme. Consisting of almost a thousand shots, Hairstyles is his most rigorous and the most considerable series.
Dal momento in cui ho deciso di avere i capelli nappy, sono costantemente in cerca di trucchi e consigli per poter mantenere i miei capelli sani e lucenti.
Sono costantemente alla ricerca di dritte per quanto riguarda la cura dei capelli ricci afro e ieri ne ho trovata una molto utile. Sto parlando del risciacquo con il te`.
Ho
avuto una settimana piena di impegni, ma finalmente oggi ho avuto un
po` di tempo per me stessa e sapevo gia` qual`era il mio compito:
spuntare i capelli. Sono ancora in quella fase con i miei "nuovi"
capelli in cui voglio fare TUTTO da sola, persino una semplice
spuntatina ai capelli quindi ho deciso di condividere con voi il mio
metodo.
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