From BBC In pictures: Connecting the world's redheads (people and their places)

[abqtommy]

I find this photo essay to be a welcome addition to my Sunday morning viewing. Enjoy!

from article: Over the past seven years, Scottish photographer Kieran Dodds has been taking pictures of people from around the world with ginger hair.

Kieran himself is "pale and ginger", what he calls a cliché of Scottish national identity, but he wants to use the hair colour to illustrate a global phenomenon.

"It's not about hair," he says. "It's about humanity and how we are all made of the same stuff. With the ginger hair you can see that connection."

link to article and pics: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-54929694

[LearnedHand]

1. Gorgeous photos in the linked photo essay

[MoonchildCA]

2. I'm a redhead, myself.

Actually, more of what was called strawberry blonde. They didn’t have the term “ginger” when I was growing up.

It was a bit of a curse in childhood. I was often made fun of. I grew up in a blended family with 5 sisters and a brother. My two biological sisters were blonde, my other siblings were all brunette. For the most part we all got along great, but no one would let me use their hair brush because, “Ew, red hair.”
When I grew up I, and everyone else, finally appreciated it. It really was part of my identity.

Now, as I get older, I have a lot of white mixed in. I still identify with being a “redhead,” but people I meet consider me blonde. For some reason, that makes me a little sad, like I’ve lost something.
I think it’s weird to have a hair color define someone’s identity, but somehow it does—at least for me.

[abqtommy]

3. What, no ginger snaps, ginger ale or Ginger Rogers in the movies? I guess my hair was

black. Nowadays I still see some black threads among the white. When I was a teen
my step-dad's brother and his family visited us*. Their daughter was about my age and
had the most beautiful red hair! And that made her strikingly beautiful, as I'm sure you are too.

*My step-dad and his siblings were the first born in the U.S. of their Irish immigrant parents in
Anaconda, Montana.

[MoonchildCA]

7. Let me clarify, "ginger" was not a hair color term, growing up.

I was a bit of a late bloomer, but I came in to my own after high school, though I’m not sure I could have been called “strikingly beautiful.” These days I’m just trying to age somewhat gracefully...

My great grandfather on my maternal grandmother’s side was Scottish.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I saw a lot of famous people in those faces.

The guy from Israel looked like Ginger Jesus. Kiernan himself looked like Ginger Van Gogh. And Tatiana from Russia looked like a Ginger Maya Rudolph.

[VA_Jill]

5. My dad's theory

concerning the prevalence of redheads in the Baltic and especially in Russia (you have to look at the parts of Russia where they are prevalent) is due to Viking incursion. I've always felt that he may have been absolutely right. Also the original inhabitants of Scotland and Ireland were darker people Picts and Celts) and Vikings got around there a good deal also, trading as much as invading.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. That's quite possible.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/expert-argues-vikings-carried-redhead-gene-scotland-2003188

And there's this guy:

[abqtommy]

8. I've read more than one source that insists that brown/blonde/red hair and various eye

colors all come from The Neanderthals. (Also that white people in the northern hemisphere
all have a small percentage of Neanderthal dna even today.) I wouldn't argue with your Dad
or you but it's obvious that the human race has always been a frisky lot!

[VA_Jill]

11. Of course on the other hand

there's the lovely story that King David was a redhead. "My beloved is white and ruddy." So there's that.

[abqtommy]

12. Yup. It's all of one piece!

[3catwoman3]

9. What enchanting photos.

I love all shades of red hair, and am fortunate enough to have auburn highlights from Mother Nature, as does my older son - he was a definite redhead as a baby and toddler. It got darker as he got older. Lots of red/auburn in his beard.

[MustLoveBeagles]

10. I love this

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Thanks for posting

As a child I was sometimes made fun of for my strawberry blonde hair. My hair color came from the germans on both sides of my family. I have some Irish in me too but all those relatives had dark hair.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. My Kurdish/American granddaughter has beautiful red hair (curly)

The family is Iranian Kurdish. There is one Kurdish family that has a daughter with seriously red hair and the very fair skin and freckles.

My family has red hair scattered about on both sides. My son in law and his sisters all have black hair, nearly black eyes and olive skin. The red hair on the baby was a surprise to all. Her hair was black when she was born