Laurent Muschel - Tropical Hair Salons (2018)

by Rolf Sachsse

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Laurent Muschel has travelled all over the tropics, photographing the intimacy surrounding this special world of hair salons. The series took off in the?Afro part? of Brussels, called Matonge (the name comes from a surrounding in Kinshasa) and then continued in East and West Africa: Addis Abeba and Shire (Ethiopia), Abidjan and Grand Bassam (Ivory Coast), Accra (Ghana), and Banjul (Gambia). The journey was accompanied by many short cuts and extensions along the way. Laurent Muschel likes to photograph the details and small gestures, inviting us to come closer and explore further.… (more)

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2018

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Conakry, Guinea

Matonge, Brussels, Belgium

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Shire, Ethiopia

Abidjan, Côte-d'Ivoire

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Initiated in Conakry (Guinea) where the author met a barber cutting the hair of a customer in the middle of the street, surrounded by the smoke from fires that were lit to dispose of the waste.

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Laurent Muschel has travelled all over the tropics, photographing the intimacy surrounding this special world of hair salons. The series took off in the?Afro part? of Brussels, called Matonge (the name comes from a surrounding in Kinshasa) and then continued in East and West Africa: Addis Abeba and Shire (Ethiopia), Abidjan and Grand Bassam (Ivory Coast), Accra (Ghana), and Banjul (Gambia). The journey was accompanied by many short cuts and extensions along the way. Laurent Muschel likes to photograph the details and small gestures, inviting us to come closer and explore further.

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