BIG HAIR by Saima Altunkaya
aima Altunkaya is a fashion photographer who first completed her classical studies in Germany and went on to concentrate on her real passion — art. She started to paint in acrylic and oil on canvas and paper and at the age of 23, touched a camera for the first time and fell in love. Since then she has worked as a photo-assistant and has recently moved to Paris to pursue her passions with beauty and fashion photography. The photo series ‘Big Hair’ by Saima Altunkaya brings together a number of avant-garde sculptural hairstyles and some serious funk. Whether it’s with giant mohawks, super-sized pie-shaped red Mohawks, a teardrop-shaped updo, or a curly hairdo that looks like a hedge, Altunkaya knows how to bring the hairstyle heat.
CLUDESAC & STUDIO MARISOL: Crazy Hair Workshop
onger or shorter, blonder or darker, let your hair go design with the special help of CuldeSac and Studio Marisol. But let’s take it from the beginning. In cooperation with Vitra Design Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou, C.I.R.E.C.A. (Centre International de Recherche et d’Education Culturelle et Agricole) has been putting on an International Summer Academy at Domaine de Boisbuchet. The Domaine de Boisbuchet is an idyllic country estate from the 15th century in the Southwest of France at the border between the Charente and Limousin regions whose current-day ensemble with a castle, landscape park and agricultural buildings surrounded by woods and meadows. The international summer workshops offered from July through mid-September and the courses are led by renowned designers, architects and artists who live and work together with the participants for a length of six to ten days. In this current edition of Boisbuchet Workshops CuldeSac and Studio Marisol (a professional hairdressing academy) they use human hair as their working and inspirational raw material. The main goal was to research, design and build a project by using cutting, shape, fixing, weaving, teasing, textures and colour. But…how could these treatments have influence on design products? This is one of the many questions that emerge in this unique workshop where hair’s properties (versatility, resistance, structure, aesthetics, colour and light) will be given to newly created objects of design. CuldeSac gives us more details: “Our intention is to review the hair subject as a social and cultural element. Why do barristers still use wigs? Why does a woman have her hair done for a special occasion? Let’s give emotional value to this aspect as well. Let’s wonder why a good hair do could make us feel happier, more beautiful or uglier, better or worse… Let’s find the way to transfer this concept into a real object. Several exercises will guide us through this workshop, varying from simple to complex, from obvious to surprising, and from observation to experience.”
Hair: Marisol Suarez © studio Marisol
Photo: Katrin Backes © studio Marisol
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