I follow Brazilian artist Kiusam de Oliveira on Facebook, and she posted a link to an artist supply shop in Brazil that sells a pack of crayons to paint different skin tones. I immediately searched if there was anything similar in the US and I found this in [...]

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Last night I watched the documentary Dark Girls that was recently aired on OWN. The film explores the concept of colorism, that is the discrimination of people based on their skin color. The difference with racism, is that colorism happens also between people of the same race, the darker the [...]

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Here is the third part of Miguel’s simple tips on how to improve your photographs when taking pictures of people with dark skin. I’m sorry it took so long…
Part III - How to Photograph dark and light skinned people together
It is very difficult to take [...]

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Here is the second part of Miguel’s simple tips on how to improve your photographs when taking pictures of people with dark skin: Part II - Improving dark pictures.
In the first part of the series I discussed how to take a good photograph of a dark skinned person against a bright background. In this second [...]

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