Ojeikere's portrait
J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere was born in 1930, in Ovbiomu-Emai in south-western Nigeria. At the age of twenty, he bought 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.
Here are some of his pictures!
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 tè.
Ho avuto una settimana piena di impegni, ma finalmente oggi ho avuto un po' di tempo per me stessa e sapevo giá 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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