Gingers
Rare and beautiful, ginger hair has inspired artists for centuries and lifted our gaze beyond the dull and the drab. In this series of portraits of gingers from around the world, I celebrate the flow of DNA across cultures and generations.
Gingers transects eleven time zones, from the Americas through Europe, on to the Middle East and Asia. The people who bear the genes, who carry the hair, have unique histories. They occupy different political regions. But they are united by a golden – well, coppery, or rusty, as the Russians would say – thread: the flow of DNA across cultures and generations, a reminder that all people are made of the same substance, and sometimes it shows.
Learn more about my book Gingers here.
