4:03am May 12, 2014

➸ Light And Dark: The Racial Biases That Remain In Photography

When Syreeta McFadden was young, she dreaded being photographed. Cameras made her skin look darkened and distorted. Now a photographer herself, she’s learned to capture various hues of brown skin.

I always wondered why old photographs tended to make black people look either darker or lighter than they were.  It figures it’d be something like this.

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