ZZ finally established a permanent residence in Slab City, a squatters' camp about 190 miles southeast of Los Angeles, in December 2016 after hitchhiking all along the West Coast. He now lives on 'Tan...

A Baaka (pygmy) girl uses a razor blade and a mirror to shave hairs from her forehead.

Laura Broadberry, from England. "I have no idea what colour it is, some people say strawberry-blonde, some say auburn. I just don't know. It's been fine, no one has teased me or bothered me, I have...

Duncan Magill, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Three year old twins Ulyana and Alena Tetenova.

Hannah Warren, Gairloch, Scotland.

Anna Reid, Nairn, Scotland.

Liam Young, Dundee, Scotland.

Pihu. 'Everyday more girls are wearing hijabs. Its a protection from sunlight and pollution. By wearing a hijab I am covering my hair and wearing decent clothes. I feel very much protected since th...

Yan-Ting, 4, from Cha Duk Chang, the Children's Cantonese Opera Association of Hong Kong, has her wig fixed backstage. Unlike many performance groups now using synthetic wigs, real hair is used here i...

Protectors of the water gather around the river near the Sacred Stone Camp to welcome arriving tribes who have come by canoe to show their support. In April 2016 the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe began a...

Vitor Cezar, 26, Director of Samba music at Portela Samba School. 'I play samba and all the musicians have short hair. But I like to be different than the group. I've had my dreads since 2008. Eu so...

Customers shop for hair extensions and supplies at a busy shop called Feirao dos Doces e Brinquedos, or the Big Fair of Sweets and Toys, in Rio's north side neighborhood of Madureira.

Katie Brown, Dundee, Scotland.

Karin M. Frei, professor of archaeometry/archaeological science at the National Museum of Denmark, uses a microscope to view a hair sample from Tollund Man, a 4th century BCE body discovered preserved...

A young man gets his haircut at a makeshift outside barbershop in Rocinha, the largest single favela in Rio de Janeiro.

Paolla Santana, 28, hair stylist at AfroAtitude. 'My preception of the black movement is somewhat different. I'm a mother. I'm single. I support a child by myself. I keep a house by myself. I run af...

A street barber reflected in a mirror.

A schoolgirl at her desk.

Jamie Hallam, Inverness, Scotland.

Ruslan Abdullaev, 23.

Suraiya (16), and one of her younger brothers at their family home in Naya Paltan.

Ruslan Abdullaev, 23.

Gabriela Bispo, 27, journalist. 'I'm 27 years old and I've been using my natural hair for less than 1 year. I spent more than a decade smoothing my strands by pure social imposition. Now I realize h...

Havar, 17, with his new haircut at Wiry's Barber shop in the city centre.

A migrant washes his hair in Sotsko Jezero (Sotsko Lake). They live, two miles away, with another 300 migrants in the Principovac reception centre.

Anna Vechtomina, 35.

ZZ climbs out of the concrete cistern after bathing in Slab City, a squatters' camp about 190 miles southeast of Los Angeles. ZZ moved to Slab City in December 2016 after hitchhiking all along the Wes...

Fernando Mendes, 21. 'The hair style is different and exotic for me. It represents Afro-Brazilians and my race. I am the only one of my friends that do this style. I think they have some prejudice,...

The audience waits for Marion Marechal-Le Pen (27) to arrive on stage at the opening event of her aunt, Marine Le-Pen's, election campaign. The National Front has been on the rise according to French...

Passengers board a Yangon Circle Line train, an antiquated commuter line that loops around the city taking just under three hours to complete the circle.

Michael McGovern, Dundee, Scotland.

Kwame Akugo singeing the hair off a duiker carcass in Atwemonom, the city's main bushmeat market. Akugo, who is paid by the carcass, works in the burning area, where fur is singed and scraped off carc...

Balpreet Kaur was left with facial hair as a result of teenage hormone activity. Her Sikh beliefs meant she left the hair as it was even once her hormones returned to normal. She found herself the obj...

A woman at night on the island of Seiland.

A boy shaves patterns into the hair of his friend alongside the tracks of the Yangon Circle Line train near Insein station. Each day, around 100,000 people use the route despite its antiquated rolling...

Aspiring tech professional Linda Kobusinge works on her laptop in a cafe in central Kampala.

Paolla Santana, 28, hair stylist at AfroAtitude. 'My preception of the black movement is somewhat different. I'm a mother. I'm single. I support a child by myself. I keep a house by myself. I run af...

Sai Lwin (AKA Shan Lay), a 19 year old drug dealer gets his hair cut by one of the Pat Jasan youth volunteers at a Pat Jasan detention centre for drug addicts. Shan Lay who came from the town of Moe H...

Aline Lekontceva, 20.

Anna Gillespie, Dundee, Scotland.

Innis Connelly, Invershin, Scotland.

Georgiy Simakov, 43.

Maiya Menshikova, 28.

Balpreet Kaur was left with facial hair as a result of teenage hormone activity. Her Sikh beliefs meant she left the hair as it was even once her hormones returned to normal. She found herself the obj...

Vladislav Chalin, 21.

Aspiring tech professional Linda Kobusinge works on her laptop in a cafe in central Kampala.

15 year old Syrian refugee Ahmad, from Daraa, gives a customer a shave at the barber's shop where he works for another refugee at the Azraq refugee camp. He learnt how to cut hair as a boy of 11 back...

Statues of alpacas, whose hair was made into textiles in nearby Salts MIll, stare across the flooded Saltaire Cricket Club pitch.

Mariya Suhoeva, 21.

Posters and photographs decorate the wall of a hair dressing salon.

A boy has his head shaved in a barber's shop.

Josh Hallam, Inverness, Scotland.

Activist Vermin Supreme in a tent at the Sacred Stone protest camp. In April 2016 the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe began a protest at the Sacred Stone Camp near Cannonball, North Dakota to oppose the pla...

Sai Lwin (AKA Shan Lay), a 19 year old drug dealer gets his hair cut by one of the Pat Jasan youth volunteers at a Pat Jasan detention centre for drug addicts. Shan Lay who came from the town of Moe H...

A group of men pulling a fishing boat ashore on the coast near Treasure Beach. This area is well known across island as the home of 'red men', light skinned Jamaicans who often have blue or green eyes...

Innis Connelly, Invershin, Scotland.

Fernando Mendes, 21. 'The hair style is different and exotic for me. It represents Afro-Brazilians and my race. I am the only one of my friends that do this style. I think they have some prejudice,...

A woman takes out her friend's extensions before restyling her hair.

A Polish barber cutting the hair of American soldier Matthew Taylor as the US military prepares to take part in 'Anaconda 2016' joint Nato exercises in Poland. 31,000 military personnel from 24 countr...

A boy shaves patterns into the hair of his friend alongside the tracks of the Yangon Circle Line train near Insein station. Each day, around 100,000 people use the route despite its antiquated rolling...

A woman with blue hair and Japanese inspired clothing talking on a mobile phone outside Liverpool Street Station.

Josh Hallam, Inverness, Scotland.

Hair stylist Alessandra Rodrigues, 23, says she has noticed a 'huge rise' in the number of black Brazilian women choosing braids and natural hairstyles in the past five years. 'It's part of embracing...

Linda Kobusinge, who hopes to pursue a career in the tech industry, at work in an internet cafe in central Kampala.

Andre Eloy, 51. 'This is my first time with braids. I was just walking past and saw the salon up there and saw the number and made an appointment last week! I've always loved big hair. It's my iden...

A schoolgirl at her desk.

Djenise Hilaive takes part in
a hair and make-up training session in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Ruslan Abdullaev, 23.

Rokam Hamoud cuts a customer's hair in his barber's shop that he reopened following the village's liberation from ISIS.

Georgiy Simakov, 43.

Hair stylist Alessandra Rodrigues, 23, says she has noticed a 'huge rise' in the number of black Brazilian women choosing braids and natural hairstyles in the past five years. 'It's part of embracing...

A group of Italian football fans outside an Italian owned hair salon in Leicester on the day Leicester City Football Club beat Everton three goals to one and went on to collect the Premier League trop...

Artyom Loginova, 27.

Victoria Sergiyenko.

Jamie Hallam, Inverness, Scotland.

Finn Arnold from Dundee, Scotland.

Balpreet Kaur was left with facial hair as a result of teenage hormone activity. Her Sikh beliefs meant she left the hair as it was even once her hormones returned to normal. She found herself the obj...

Eilidh Guthrie, Dundee, Scotland.

Vitor Cezar, 26, Director of Samba music at Portela Samba School. 'I play samba and all the musicians have short hair. But I like to be different than the group. I've had my dreads since 2008. Eu so...

Fernando Mendes, 21, has braids made by Juliana Marinho, the director of the AfroAtitude salon, located in the Madureira neighborhood in the heart of Rio's North side. Fernando says he is the only one...

Jannatul Ferdous. 'I have been suffering from bad hair. After wearing hijab it has reduced. Hijab has brought a lot of change in my look also. I am feeling new. My family says it will protect me too....

Barber Aram Rahim (35) cutting hair in his shop in the town centre. Prior to the 2017 General Election he was asked what he thought were the main issues affecting the local area. Rahim replied: 'I'm g...

Teba Mohammed, 26, with a customer in her hair and beauty saloon, which she has restarted after her original buisness was burnt out by ISIS during their occupation of the city.

Punters at the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Sha Tin Racecourse.

A participant in the first 'Flat Out Friday Motorcycle Race' held during the 'Mama Tried Motorcycle Show'. The invitational show showcases 'honest, homebuilt and unusual bikes from the Midwest. Mama T...

Roberta Marinho, 28, gets box braids at the AfroAtitude salon, in Rio's north side, one of many new black-owned small businesses in the region.

A village hairdresser shaves a man's head on the roadside between Diffa and Zinder.

A barber with a signboard offering 'Short Back & Lobotomies' on the Bentilee estate.

A participant in the first 'Flat Out Friday Motorcycle Race' held during the 'Mama Tried Motorcycle Show'. The invitational show showcases 'honest, homebuilt and unusual bikes from the Midwest. Mama T...