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Zawe
Ashton

Through writing, actor Zawe Ashton is slowly shifting her role from object to subject.
Words by Hettie O’Brien. Photography by Pelle Crépin. Styling by Holly White. Hair by Bjorn Krischker. Makeup by James O’Riley.

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Through writing, actor Zawe Ashton is slowly shifting her role from object to subject.
Words by Hettie O’Brien. Photography by Pelle Crépin. Styling by Holly White. Hair by Bjorn Krischker. Makeup by James O’Riley.

The work of a convincing performer is to make a practice of disjunction, blurring fact and fiction until it’s no longer clear where the performance ends. Zawe Ashton, an actor and writer from East London, has been performing for so long that she sometimes feels as though she has “just woken up.” “There has been this eye, this gaze, that has followed me since birth, ” she says. This is what it is to have grown up as a child

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This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Five

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