A celebration of ginger people of ages, races and genders
For anyone who actually grew up with red hair, this could easily be read as sarcasm. After all, while the colour may be trending , it hasn’t always been seen as appealing. As someone with freckles and auburn hair, my childhood was at least partly defined by strangers shouting “ginge!” from bus windows, or making jokes about my “carrot top” . For those with more vivid hues of orange, the stories were much worse.
While taking their portraits, Meyerowitz would talk to his subjects. In the book, he notes that he was struck by their “courage and shyness”, as well as their shared “painful remembrances” of childhood. “I noticed kind of familial qualities [with people that belonged] to this genetic package,” the photographer says of his redheaded subjects. In the book, he calls it a “blood knot”: a tight bond between people who had to overcome being ridiculed or singled out while growing up.
The connections still exist, even three decades after the images were first created. When asked finally how he feels looking back at these photos now, under the bleak drizzly skies of London, I can almost hear Meyerowitz’s mind drift back to the moments they were taken. “I could tell you where I was, the quality of the day, the feeling I had when I made the photograph,” he says. “There’s so much intimate data we think we forget that the picture embodies ...
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