The World’s First Magazine All About Redheads

I’ve published a magazine which deals with red hair and everything related to it. The publication, called MC1R, is the first and only one of its type in the world.

I’ve launched it 2014 in Germany by myself (Tristan Rodgers, 32-years-old) and it already has a readership of thousands across the world with over 15.000 sold copies.

It is named after Melanocortin 1 Receptor, one of the key proteins in regulating pigment production which lead to red hair.

It started off as a photography project with a few friends, but I decided to see if there could be enough interest to launch a magazine. Redheads are one of the smallest minorities all over the world. In different cultures the people react on the way you look, so if you are white with freckles and bright red hair, you may polarize in first. But I don’t try to put a focus on discrimination or something like that, there is more to talk about and I think these kind of stories have been told wrongly enough with a lot of projects over the past.

There are a lot of things redheads have in common, for example the special way how people use the hair in art, fashion or photography and often redheads have this special kind of connection to this topic, so there is this special vibe the people have which I try to catch and reflect with this project. Since launching the magazine, I’ve has been part of numerous redhead festivals with a large community interested in this work.

The people connect more at festivals or with different kind of projects around the world and they share the experience they made with a lot of other people. Its a big positive hype right now and it’s cool for almost every redhead so see topics around our hair color on the media and everywhere else.

More info: mc1r-magazine.com