BIRMINGHAM UK PHOTOGRAPHER

Seventh shoot for my final major project - The beauty of dark skin.
The idea of attributing beauty to race has been around for centuries – it’s impossible to deny that ingrained and structural inequality exists. Colourism plays a large role in the media and it leads to people who are of darker skin tones being underrepresented. Every form of media, from magazines to the internet, displays a standard of beauty it believes that everyone should be. Black women are particularly vulnerable to the effects of European standards of beauty, because these standards emphasize skin colors and hair types that exclude many black women, especially those of darker skin. Using factual information and my personal experience as a black woman, this project explores how it feels to be dark skin in a society obsessed with fair skin, and the black woman’’s internalization of European beauty standards through the media and society, and the related outcomes of this internalization on self-perception, academic achievement, employment, and mental health. A review of the research carried out, indicates that European standards of beauty can have damaging effects on the life trajectories of black women, especially those with the darkest skin tones, primarily in the form of internalized self-hatred.
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📷: @nyimaphoto
Model: @miss.jai_
Retouch: @nyimaphoto
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Gear: @canonuk @canonusa Canon EOS 5DS & Canon EF 70-200mm Lens / x2 @profotousa @profotospainofficial @profotoglobal D1 1000Ws monolights & x2 Profoto Silver Umbrellas

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