On the Record is a series of photo-interviews encouraging interviewees to examine their relationship with hair - their own as well as the hair of others - while using this photography to elicit descriptions, explanations, and trigger memories.

Click on the individual images below to access each interview.

The FACExHorniman On the Record - Hair Stories at Kent University

Visit the Keynes Atrium and Teaching Gallery spaces at Keynes College for an exhibition curated by Davina Hawthorne, Max Kandhola and Sharon Lloyd, which showcases work created and selected by Black and Brown academics from a range of UK universities nationwide.

While some of the works for the physical exhibition are new to Hair Stories, academics took this as an opportunity to revisit and re-examine their relationship with visual representations of self attached to the significance of hair seen against Eurocentric beauty standards from Black, Brown and Asian perspectives within the UK. Based on previous works curated for the FACExHorniman online exhibition: Hair-Untold Stories (2022) this project, in partnership with the University of Kent extends viewer understanding of the images by providing context of the personal narratives presented.

On the Record features oral responses of 12 leading academics: Curated by Sharon Lloyd co-founder of FACE who is in conversation with artist, Peter Lloyd ARE other contributors are Andrew Ibi, Liverpool John Moores University, Benita Odogwu-Atkinson, University for the Creative Arts, Davina Hawthorne, De Montfort University Ezinma Mbeledogu, University for the Creative Arts, Jacob Goff, artist Lorraine Henry, University of the Arts London, Max Kandhola, Nottingham Trent University, Mylinh Nguyen, University of Brighton Sadie Clayton University for the Creative Arts, Sharon N Hughes University East London and Teleica Kirkland University of the Arts London.

This FACE collaboration aims to prompt a different type of viewing and a response that can shift the focus from the personal.