Our hair, we are born with it yet there is so much we do to try and change our natural hair texture, and our hair’s appearance. Antonia Opiah’s Huffington Post article “The Changing Business of Black Hair” reported that the black haircare industry is estimated to be worth half a trillion dollars, as …
Read More »AFRO ARCHIVES – A PERFORMER’s WORLD – Episode Twelve
What Is The Best Thing About Your Hair? Over the last 12 months, the Afro Archives series looked at how the acting industry is set up and compared experiences of people with different hair textures, ages, genders and cultural backgrounds. In answering the above question, this is what the actors …
Read More »AFRO ARCHIVES – A PERFORMERs WORLD – Episode Eleven
Would You Shave off All Your Hair For A Film? This month’s Afro Archives Episode Eleven brought a mixed bag of responses to this question “would you shave off all your hair for a film?”: “I wouldn’t even consider it” – Ketorah Williams “I would do it in a heartbeat” …
Read More »AFRO ARCHIVES – A PERFORMERs WORLD – Episode Ten
Afro Archives episode 10 asks “Why Go Natural With Your Hair?” – “It’s important to go natural because it’s who we are…let loose…let ourselves out…just be you” – says actress Alice Fofana. I wanted to ask this question “ Why Go Natural With Your Hair?” for our October release because …
Read More »AFRO ARCHIVES – A PERFORMERs WORLD – Episode Nine
What Do You Do After You’ve Washed Your Hair? Shrinking hair, flexible hair, shiny, soft, fresh, bouncy – leave-in conditioner, no conditioner, blow-dry or shake it and go. Such variety among the actors in Afro Archives episode 9 as they describe what they do after they wash their hair. Washing …
Read More »AFRO ARCHIVES – A PERFORMERs WORLD – Episode Eight
How Do You Take Your Hair To Work? A reveal into the world of extensions and wigs. The fixable practice of hair for beauty and health reasons. I think of this part of the hair experience as being a secret world. You have to know where to go, what to buy, …
Read More »AFRO ARCHIVES – A PERFORMER’S WORLD – Episode Seven
Does Your Hair Affect Preparing Character Parts for Auditions? Until now, the women have dominated Afro Archives, we have a lot to say! This topic of preparing character parts was no exception: “You don’t have an office worker with afro hair” is a theme running throughout. In Afro Archives episode …
Read More »Robbie Spotswood – Profile of an aspiring photographer
During a recent project at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, London, we had the pleasure of working with a young photographer called Robbie Spotswood. He told us that he has an exhibition in Portsmouth until 7th December, so we decided to find out more about what sparked his passion for …
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