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'Strands Of Love' Connects Generations Of An African-American Family

For one year, New York-based photographer Shuran Huang followed the Collins family to church, baseball fields and their family-run barbershop.
A 1980s photo of Carlton and Juanita Collins hangs inside the barbershop in the same spot it was taken.

When you walk into Collin's Barber & Beauty Shop, it feels like home.

There are family photos hanging on the walls, football helmets sitting on the shelves and relics from past generations on display.

Under a shelf stacked with hair products, tucked into a picture frame, is the first dollar the Collins family ever made from the barbershop on Aug. 3, 1970.

Over the decades, this barbershop in Syracuse, N.Y., has welcomed four generations of the Collins family, countless community members and, most recently, a New York-based photojournalist by the name of Shuran Huang.

Over the course of one year, Huang followed the Collins family and photographed many aspects of their lives — baseball

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