like tbh, it makes me really uncomfortable when white photographers go someplace ~~exotic~~ like india or pakistan and take a picture of a dark-skinned light-eyed child and put it in their portfolio with some bland name like “portrait of a young girl at well in wheat field, manipur, india, 2015.” like what kind of commodification of brown bodies is this?? did you pay this child? did you pay her family? do you know anything about the area you’re in other than the shit you read on wikipedia? do these people mean anything to you past their aesthetic???? please cut out this trend of photographing nameless identityless faces designed to further your artistic experience and start seeing them as real live human beings who exist outside of the boxes you put them in.
I like it, it shows diversity instead of the same white being photographed all the time
and what does it show when white photographers need to seek out diversity in poverty-stricken areas of foreign countries instead of their own? what does it show when people of color are othered in the process of depicting diversity? what does it show when mainstream media ignores artists and photographers of color who depict cultural and racial diversity in their own works that actually reflects their experiences? what does it show when white people are paid to be photographed and people of color should be grateful that they’re photographed at all?
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