Visual Studies / 012

Body & Gesture

Melbourne, New York City, Phnom Penh and Tokyo

2022–2026

27 images

Hair

Hair explored as a site where personal identity intersects with public space.

Coney Island, New York City.

Hair follows acts of styling, covering, cutting, touching and display across public space. The photographs treat hair not as decoration around the face but as material through which identity is made visible and read by others.

Melbourne CBD.
Melbourne CBD.

Because hair is both bodily growth and cultural surface, it carries meanings that are intimate, inherited and social.

Queens, New York City.

A hairstyle can signal affiliation, resistance, discipline, gender, faith or fashion, but no single image can stabilize those codes.

Melbourne CBD.
West Villiage, New York City.
Midtown, New York City.

The series stays with the gap between self-fashioning and public interpretation. It asks how hair mediates the relation between the body someone inhabits and the identity the surrounding world assigns to it.

Midtown, New York City.
Midtown, New York City.
Upper East Side, New York City.
Midtown, New York City.
Flushing, New York City.
Times Square. New York City.
Central Park, New York City.
Phnom Penh.
Midtown, New York City.
Phnom Penh.
Midtown, New York City.
Midtown, New York City.
Melbourne CBD.
Ginza, Tokyo.
Midtown, New York City.
Shibuya, Tokyo.
Shibuya, Tokyo.