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DAVID WILKES As a child growing up in the only black family in the street in north London in the 1960s, Ngozi Fulani was warned by her Windrush generation parents to keep her head down.

Photos of ‘It’s My Hair’ series. Pic: Brunel Johnson Johnson spoke to ELL about the tradition of people doing hair outside on the street: “Have you ever seen traditional salons do hair outside on a sunny day? Why do the Ridley Road salons do it?” He said that this practice originated because most black salons are not given the opportunity to rent salon spaces. Afro hair has always been a symbol of the fight against racism. Johnson documents what it really takes to maintain hair that h...