Johnson Donatus Aihumekeokhai Ojeikere was a Nigerian photographer who despite his very humble beginnings in a rural village in 1930, decided that he wanted to pursue a career in photography. In the year 1968, he began one of his largest and most recognisable projects where he documented various traditional Nigerian hairstyles. By the time that he had completed this incredibly large project, he had printed approximately a thousand pictures of different African womens’ hairstyles. In the February of 2012, he died at the age of 83.
