Saturday, July 30, 2016

The beauty of human skin in every shade...Humanae

Angélica Dass is a photographer who used her art to highlight that human traits, such as skin color are not discrete groups but instead a spectrum of different shades.



 Dass created a palette of color based on the people she photographed:




Her photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In her Ted Talk, she explains the inspiration behind her portrait project, Humanæ, and her pursuit to document humanity's true colors rather than the untrue white, red, black and yellow associated with race.


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