When the pandemic shuttered salons, many women were obliged—or enabled—to go gray. A new series of photographs celebrates the beauty of silver-streaked hair.
Lauren Katzenberg, 35. “For a very long time I said, ‘I am in my twenties or early thirties—I’m not interested in being gray.’ ”
Obliged—or enabled—by the pandemic to go gray, other subjects whom Carucci photographed also reckoned with transformation. Lauren Katzenberg, who is thirty-five, started going gray at sixteen. “I would sit by the mirror and pluck them out, but by the time I was in college there were too many to pluck out,” she said. Shut up at home last year, she learned to appreciate what she had so self-consciously sought to hide.
Pamela Gontha, 47. “I’d never seen, out there or just in my own mirror, anything go beyond the roots that you hate, that you’re going to cover.”was a pause—a time for reflection , even a time for growth . For Sausan Machari, who is forty-two, letting her abundant hair return to its natural coloration was part of a larger process of change. “Before, especially in New York, we were always planning,” she said.
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