For over a decade,has been traveling up and down Argentina to find and photograph women and girls with super-long hair. Her project “Dear Long Hair” pays homage to a tradition borne out of a culture that believes that to cut off your hair is to cut off your thoughts.“Back to the Future,”
Maria, Azucena and Rocio struggle with drying their hair as it can take a whole day to dry after washing it. If they need to go out and braid it then it will not dry.I was in the north of Argentina, in the Andes, where a lot of Indigenous communities live. I was doing a project on small schools in the middle of the mountains, and I kept photographing these girls with long hair.
Our societies here in South America are so mixed that people don’t even realize — because it’s been going on for years and passes from generation to generation; it’s invisible, in a way. So I started realizing that this has to do with our hybrid societies, this mix of Indigenous communities. That’s the reason why, in the north, I find a lot more women with long hair. Because they are coming directly from Indigenous communities.
Abril struggles with wind where she lives, she goes everywhere with her hair down as she wants to show it. She says the worst is gtting on a bus, everyone touches her hair and it gets dirty. That’s beautiful. I’m sure these photos would make an incredible book! Do you have plans to put one together?
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