"Tell me about your hair!" With this request, each of the photo shootings for Rohina Hoffman's illustrated book "Hair Stories" began. Around 40 women visited the photographer at home to listen to their personal hair history. The youngest participant was 14, the oldest 100 years old. Whether red or blonde, colorfully colored, short or long, frizzy or smooth - all portrayed have a unique connection to their hair.

Olivia told the photographer about her long natural mane, which she always had and the other one was so eager to touch. Yasmin had to move out of her strict home before she could wear her hair as she pleased. And Angie felt not only freed from the weight of hair after a hairdresser visit.

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Rohina Hoffman: Hair Stories

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DAMIANI

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92

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EUR 23.46

Language: English

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"Hair is more than just a style," Hoffman writes in her illustrated book. They are a mirror of personality, and like humans, they changed in the course of life. Some women are proud of their hair, they can stand for femininity or self-respect, but also about problems or aging. They say something about a particular religious or political belief system, they can clarify belonging to a particular group.

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Women and their hair: Lifelines

Hairstyles also revealed a lot about their wearers. Are they accurately styled or as if it did not matter, side vertex or great, ponytail or braid? For some women it is an expression of themselves when they wear wigs, for others it means freedom to leave the hair in its natural state. Anyone who suddenly cuts off his long hair or tints purple often has a break in his life.

Hoffman himself had a dramatic experience with her hair: when she was seven years old, her two braids were cut short. "For a large part of my childhood, I wore the haircut of a boy I probably never fully recovered from," says the photographer. "The trauma of losing control of my identity has remained with me all my life."