Rohina Hoffman: Hair Stories

Name: Rohina Hoffman: Hair Stories
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SKU: 9788862086400
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Hair Stories is a compelling collection of interviews and portraits by photographer Rohina Hoffman, exploring the intricate connections women have with their hair. Drawing on her neurological training to foster deep conversations, Hoffman reveals how hair serves as a powerful symbol of identity, femininity, and bodily autonomy in a world marked by misogyny. This project, undertaken before the #MeToo movement, poignantly highlights hair not merely as aesthetics but as a tangible expression of women's histories and experiences.
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Hair Stories is a series of excerpted interviews and portraits of a diverse array of women, which explores the complex relationship women have with their hair. Photographer Rohina Hoffman used her interviewing skills, which she developed in her training as a neurologist, to establish an intimate rapport that allowed for a truthful telling about the impact of hair in these women's lives.

Though it was conceived and shot before the #MeToo movement, this salient project presents hair as a metaphor for identity, femininity, and the manner in which women struggle for control over their own bodies in a misogynistic world. Hair Stories reflects that hair is more than just style or aesthetics; it is a physical manifestation of the history of women.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788862086400

Publisher: Damiani

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 May 2019

Country: Italy

Imprint: Damiani

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 660g

Pages: 92

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Rohina Hoffman

About the Author

Rohina Hoffman was born in India and raised in New Jersey. She received a B.S. in Neural Sciences from Brown University and an M.D. from Brown University School of Medicine. While a student at Brown she studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1994, she moved to Los Angeles to begin her residency in neurology at UCLA Medical Center but continued her interest in photography. After a career in neurology, she devoted herself full time as a fine art photographer with the support of mentors Aline Smithson and Ken Merfeld. Her award winning work has been exhibited in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally including the Griffin Museum of Photography, Southeast Center of Photography, dnj Gallery, Tilt Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and the Center for Fine Art Photography. Her photography has appeared in publications such as Shots Magazine, Edge of Humanity, and Lenscratch. She lives in Los Angeles and will be having an opening of Hair Stories at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School in January 2019.