"Under the typewriter": Men in the hairdresser's chair

EVERY DAY PHOTOGRAPHERS AROUND THE WORLD looking for new ways to tell stories or to capture what we previously did not notice. We choose interesting photo projects and ask their authors what they wanted to say. This week we are publishing the "Clear Cut" series by German photographer Christoph Soder, in which he explored the dialogue of the individual and society through everyday activities.

I grew up in Germany and started studying photography there. The project "Clear Cut" is not my first big work, but I published it in the form of a book - only 35 samizdat copies, they are completely sold out. Now I continue to study on the course of documentary photography and develop other projects.

With "Clear Cut," I had a brief: narrative through portrait. That is, I had to tell one story through several portraits, while it was possible to shoot each one completely differently. I love working with people, I also photographed hairdressers before, so for "Clear Cut" I decided to shoot their clients - I thought this would be a good continuation of my previous work.

I can not single out one favorite portrait, they are all part of a great job. All the pictures look uniform, it happened by chance: the characters pose on the same background in the same striped capes from the Welsh barbershop (by the way, I sheathed the book covers with the same cloth), some still have traces of talcum powder - sometimes reduce razor irritation; I decided not to wash them. Thinking, I realized that I like this move with uniformity: in contrast with it, individuality is seen most clearly. Perhaps it is the work on contrasts that attracts me to photography, moreover, the eternal dialogue of a person with society revolves around it.