Video: Around the world in search of redheads: the photographer has already traveled 20 countries and took 130 pictures
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There are only 1% of red-haired people on the planet, and scientists are seriously afraid that in a hundred years they will not remain. So the pictures of the American photographer Brian Dowling (Brian Dowling) can become a rarity. The portrait painter travels the world to meet red-haired girls. From his own experience, he was convinced that beauties with copper hair can be found not only in Ireland and Scotland, but also in other countries!
Brian Dowling decided to publish a photobook with portraits of redheads, in his collection there are already 130 pictures, and this is not the limit. He himself lives in Berlin and has so far managed to visit 20 different countries. His project is called “Redhead Beauty”.
Scientists have found that natural red hair color is the rarest on the planet. It is a special form of gene mutation classified as MC1R. The mutation affects not only a person's hair color, but also his pain threshold, the level of skin tanning tolerance, and the ability to turn gray. In redheads, hair does not lose color immediately, but gradually lightens. As a rule, in old age, redheads become blondes.
Brian's project is very popular: he has thousands of Instagram subscribers, and the book has been published on Kickstarter. The photographer has been hunting his models for three consecutive summers, and the result is impressive!
By the way, the fact that everyone in Ireland is red is a stereotype. Find out how things really are in this mysterious country from the article in which we exposing the most popular stereotypes from Ireland.
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