Gingers of America: portraits of people with ginger hair across the US
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British photographer Kieran Dodds documents hundreds of Americans with red hair across the United States, capturing their portraits and interviewing them about national identity. The resulting book reveals that the project transcends hair color to explore deeper themes that emerged repeatedly throughout his travels and conversations.
For his latest in a series of work photographing people with red hair, photographer Kieran Dodds interviewed and made portraits of hundreds of people with ginger hair, with widely varying backgrounds and heritage, across the US between 2024 and 2026. Dodds asked each interviewee the same question at the end of the interview: What unites the states? We hear some of the responses
A new book of this work is available to preorder here
‘Although almost everyone featured in the project is ginger, it is not really about hair. It is structured around themes raised time and again in the conversations I had with portrait sitters, and which I reflected on during my travels in the states’ – Kieran Dodds
A new book of this work is available to preorder here
‘Although almost everyone featured in the project is ginger, it is not really about hair. It is structured around themes raised time and again in the conversations I had with portrait sitters, and which I reflected on during my travels in the states’ – Kieran Dodds
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