Dasha Shipitcina
Kieran Dodds
from Gingers
Perm, Russia. 2017
In Scotland, one in eight Scots in Kieran Dodds' homeland are, like him, ginger. Perm - a fitting name - lies on the Kama river upstream from the Udmurt Republic in Russia, an area known as the heart of the world's other great ginger enclave. Ginger looms large in imaginations far beyond its heartlands. Walking around National Galleries Kieran was struck by the disproportionate number of paintings depicting ginger hair compared to its prevalence in the population outside. For some artists it is almost an obsession. Titian painted so many gingers he has a type of red named after him. From Boticelli and Cranach through to the pre-Raphaelites and Gustav Klimt, ginger and gingers have entranced artists for hundreds of years.
Kieran’s study Gingers transects eleven time zones, from the Americas through Europe, on to the Middle East and Asia. The people who bear the genes, who carry the hair, have unique histories. They occupy different political regions. But they are united by a golden – well, coppery, or rusty, as the Russians would say – thread: the flow of DNA across cultures and generations, a reminder that all people are made of the same substance, and sometimes it shows.
Specification
Kieran Dodds
Kieran Dodds is a non-fiction photographer known internationally for his research-driven photo stories and portraiture. His personal work looks at the interplay of environment and culture, tracing global events through daily lives.
A trained ecologist, Kieran is interested in ‘questions of being and doing’ ; in how humans live and how landscape functions as a crucible of culture. He has received grants to document Tibetan culture in flux, as pastoral nomads are resettled in highland China, and the role of spiritual beliefs in the global conservation movement. Living in Scotland, he has also focused on its recent political upheaval using the landscape to consider depictions and realities of Scottish identity through the centuries.
Kieran’s work is held by the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland and has been shown at the Scottish Parliament and the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. His first book ‘Gingers’ was released in November 2020 closely followed by a softcover second edition. The book was one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Photography books of 2020.
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