In different parts of the world, braids have become powerful symbols of identity as well as defiance against colonialism and systemic racial injustice. In the Kichwa community, as in other ...

Three men in Otavalo, Ecuador, with braids. Photographer Irina Werning's long-term project on long hair in Latin America took her to the Kichwa community for its final chapter. - Irina Werning ...