An exhibition by Nigerian photographer Andrew Esiebo on the barbershops dotted across eight West African cities has opened in London.
Pride is an exploration of hairstyle and individual and collective identity via the barbershops of Lagos, Cotonou, Abidjan, Monrovia, Bamako, Dakar, Nouakchott and Accra.
Esiebo's project comprises four related elements, used as mechanisms to explore narratives about African males.
"The Barbers captures the men in their work environments and Style is a focus on social identity through hairstyles in relation to their African and global blackness," says Esiebo.
"Urban Aesthetics documents the exteriors of the barbershops, which marry the rhythms and soul of the street, through hand painted signs."
The individuality of each establishment reflects the co-existence of tradition and modernity. Nuances looks at the iconography of the interiors.
Andrew Esiebo: Pride will run until 8 February 2014 at Tiwani Contemporary, a gallery founded in 2011 in Little Portland Street in London's Fitzrovia, which focuses on contemporary African art.
