South African photographer and self-proclaimed “ginger” Anthea Pokroy is on a mission to photograph fellow gingers in a photo project that touches on “identity, prejudice, racial classification, segregation, and elitism”.
Titled ‘I Collect Gingers’, Pokroy started the project in August 2010 and has collected over 500 portraits of redheaded individuals.
According to Pokroy, she said that she was inspired by the “beautiful, romantic color palette of a ginger person and all that it connotes” and that there was an “innate sense of community and collective experience that emerged from amongst the ‘otherness’ of the gingers.”
“Classification and segregation, both in terms of exclusivity/elitism and ostracism/discrimination, due to skin color, religion, or the superficial distinctions, (why not hair color too?) are still notions that are very prominent in today’s society in both South Africa, Africa and abroad,” wrote Pokroy.
“This body of work hopes to clearly highlight this using the gingers as a symbol of both the oppressed and the oppressor.”
Click here to see more photos from the project.
[via Anthea Pokroy]