Increase in Black artists on Glasto bill reflects cultural shift

A sculpture of an Afro comb in the West Holts field at Glastonbury. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

As Ron Timehin wandered around Glastonbury’s West Holts stage, something caught his eye: a huge gleaming statue of an afro comb with a clenched fist shooting out of the ground.

“That caught me off guard,” says the photographer from south London, who was at the festival for the first time. “I have the exact same one in my pocket.”