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Photographer  Brighton/London

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Preview Toby 2015

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by Pieter Hugo

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Khartoum, Sudan, 1993 | Female Popular Defence militia at Trade Union Rallye | © of Abbas

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Rachel Dolezal: Perhaps this story isn't one of deception or cultural appropriation, but solidarity

From fully fifty yards away I could see that the man in the wheelchair coming towards me on the Worthing promenade was beaming. As he neared he held out his arm stiffly and clenched a fist. Slowly it dawned on me what he was doing: the gesture of recognition that was more common in the 1970s when you found yourself alone in a predominantly white town and suddenly (thankfully) spied a brother coming towards you. We bumped fists; black man to black man. Except there was one problem: I am black; the man (the brother) in the wheelchair was white.

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Ben Smallwood Wearing designs by Jazz Grant

Photography Maya Grant

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sis

Maya Grant

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A conversation about the Hijab

Maya Grant

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Schism- editorial 2014

Model Jade Pawsey

By Maya Grant

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Stills from a short film- running in Hijab

By Maya Grant

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Hijab series 1

Model Ruby Hughes

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‘It girl’

This is another collage I made from pictures a friend had posted to her instagram. If you look really closely you will notice that it's actually made from four individual photographs. She is wearing two separate white outfits and two separate black outfits that are all virtually identical.

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‘It Girl’

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Radical Muslim caught on camera.

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Princess religion

 Maya Grant

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Seeking religion 2015

scan of montage

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Hijab Maya Grant

Most Muslims who wear the covering call it a hijab(حجاب), an Arabic word meaning “cover.” However, there are various forms of hijab that are referred to by different names. While hijab is commonly associated with women, Muslim men also sometimes wear a head covering as a means of showing modesty.