Konkursas The three rooms are strange

The three rooms are strange and empty

The pictures composing Amma take us from the seacoast of Sri Lanka

Edited by Felix Hoffmann

and demonstrate how Albizias

I mean to open up a dialogue about the nature of audience and purpose in contemporary photographic practice

Konkursas The three rooms are strangeFrancesca Allens Konkursas depicts participants in Lithuanias Konkursas Pasaulio Ilgaplauks annual competition for the worlds longest hair. Here hundreds of girls and women with thousands of feet of hair walk the runway and have their lovingly groomed hair measured by gloved judges, before shaking it in a ceremonial finale. Allens fascination with ritual and coming of age sparked her interest in the contest, one which blends pageantry with folklore