Salma Haidrani
As part of an ongoing celebration of Changemakers connected to Sheffield, I worked with multi-award winning author and journalist Salma Haidrani to feature in a series of editorial & content imagery exploring feminine strength, convention-breaking and power.
Salma has built a trusted name, focusing on amplifying invisible voices and uplifting communities and women of colour. Salma caught my attention with her fast rise to success, and personal approach to journalism. A young Muslim woman who graduated from Sheffield University’s Sociology BA, she was published as a contributing author to the book, It’s Not About the Burqa alongside multiple national and international magazine articles within 2 years of graduating. Her approach is committed, personal to her own experience and position, and at times audacious - for example, going undercover at the Miss England beauty pageant for Cosmopolitan magazine.
Constructing a creative team of myself, stylist Naomi Hodgkin and makeup artist/ creative sustainableist Khandiz Joni, sustainability was at the forefront of our creative decision-making, through travel, equipment selection, styling and makeup choices.
Salma Haidrani is a Contributing Author of several Non-Fiction books on Picador, DK and Penguin, and has written for British Vogue, i-D, Dazed, Elle, GQ Middle East, Hunger, Gal-Dem, AnOther, Cosmopolitan UK and more.