Barbershops and hair salons in general are intriguing to me because they seems like
fun and easy going places where one can create style while chatting. Artistically, it is the place where the stylist's mind participates in instant creation.
The stylist creates in leisure. For the Hidden History, I will be targeting the Mission District's shops because there seems to exist so many, with few customers in each. I am interested in photographing the interior of these candy coated shops and interviewing owners and workers on how and why they do what they do.
As well, I want to find out how a shop can afford to stay in business and afford rent in the expensive city of San Francisco with competition everywhere. Additionally, it'll be interesting to document in how many haircuts, perms, and dyes, happen per day. To the audience at the gallery I would like to relive the history of each barbershop, reconstructing bits and pieces of the shops to make a unified shop in the gallery, such as wallpaper, flooring, chairs, a sandwich stand. During the opening I plan to cut audience hair.
As well, I want to find out how a shop can afford to stay in business and afford rent in the expensive city of San Francisco with competition everywhere. Additionally, it'll be interesting to document in how many haircuts, perms, and dyes, happen per day. To the audience at the gallery I would like to relive the history of each barbershop, reconstructing bits and pieces of the shops to make a unified shop in the gallery, such as wallpaper, flooring, chairs, a sandwich stand. During the opening I plan to cut audience hair.