“We’ve entered a period of time when style on all levels is obsessed with heritage, realness and strength. For men, facial hair seems to represent all these things” Jonathan.
I find the clothing that people choose to express themselves
in to the world interesting but I am becoming more and more fascinated with
faces and the way that a portrait can tell 100 stories, more than ever before.
Movember brought around that one time in the year when every
man tries to grow a moustache for charity, I’ve seen some good and also bad
attempts.
Beards are big on the streets everywhere today, men are
sporting facial hair, proudly displaying beards or moustaches’ all colours,
shapes and forms.
When looking into street style photography I came across
Scottish street photographer Jonathan Daniel Pryce and found one of his
projects whereby he went on a search for the ultimate beard, documenting one a
day, this resulted in a book and exhibition featuring slick city bankers to Shoreditch
fashionistas, with enough stamina to carry on growing facial hair and enough
courage to make it count.
Individuality is always something that is becoming more and
more difficult to pin down, but facial hair and portraits shows something about
the personality of the person.The story and narrative behind images is almost as important
as the photograph itself, therefore I would strongly recommend looking into
getting a copy of the book (as I am) as included in the book are anecdotes and
quotes on the culture of the beard.
Some of my favourite images above.
Check all the images out at
100beards.tumblr.com/archive
anothergarcon.blogspot.com
This is what I am missing in life.
ReplyDeleteI feel inadequate in world full of bearded men.
Have pity on me and my babyish face. xx