At Global Post Finbarr O’Reilly finds that beneath the horrors of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo there is real humanity, which he sees revealed in women’s hairstyles. I have to admit, I’m not sure if I find this touching and revelatory, sort of creepy and exploitative, or reductive like the tabloid magazines you find in the checkout line of a grocery store. Probably bits and pieces of all three. The pictures in the accompanying slideshow are striking, to be sure. I do know that the title of the feature, “Perhaps it could be called ‘Congo chic’,” strikes me as tacky.
