LIGHT TRAFFIC

© Carolyne Weldon

Just came home from a fresh foray of interviewing and photograph-taking down the streets at Krazy Kutz barbershop. The research for my feature article is progressing smoothly, if not particularly briskly. This time I got a chance to chat with Malcolm (shown above), who has been working alongside Ian Daley, the owner, for the past 13 years. Malcolm, who seems to just speak in quotes (“my job, as I sees it, is to make the guys look their best for the ladies”), was first paid to cut hair in high-school when an Egyptian teacher of his saw he was doing his friends’ hair. Soon enough, he found himself staying at school after everyone else had gone, every other Thursday, to cut the teachers’s hair. “We did that throughout my whole highschool,” Malcolm told me. “His wife just wouldn’t let him go to nobody else”.

P.S. I am still finding it highly amusing that my first “real” article (exluding this) will be a profile on Victoria Avenue barbershops for an Atlanta-based barbering magazine. Life indeed works in mysterious ways.

© Carolyne Weldon