One of the highlights of this year’s Sydney Design Week, was the last keynote in its program – a conversation held between Moroccan-British artist Hassan Hajjaj and Jane Duru, associate creative director at R/GA Australia, who is also British-born with a Nigerian cultural heritage.
For example, he is just as happy to photograph veiled women on motorcycles in Marrakesh as he is his own diasporic community of friends in London or Billie Eilish for Vogue, which he did in 2020, ensuring she dressed in his own clothing label, Andy Wahloo.