Words and images by Irina Werning.
Las Vegas Long Hair feels at first like a pageant, but it’s really a gathering of women carrying pieces of elsewhere. Migrant women from across the United States arrive with hair that holds more than beauty—it holds ritual, family, distance, and time. In a country built on movement, their long hair becomes a quiet archive: of where they come from, what they keep, and how identity survives even after crossing borders.
