General Entry - Emerging Talent Awards

Saturday Girl is a series of portraits of young women specifically as seen through their hairstyles. All of the photographs are taken on Saturday afternoons in a pop up studio in Leeds, UK and on Saturdays this city brims with young women, out with friends, shopping and generally hanging around looking and being looked at. These girls are experimenting with fantastically creative ways of expressing themselves. We have always dyed and cut, sprayed and shaved; as a way of stating individuality and belonging to a tribe. All this big hair also reflects past trends in hair fashion, passed down to them intuitively through culture. Saturday Girl is an exploration of what hair means culturally and personally to young women and how they experience and use the power inherent in becoming visible as women.