Paul Octaviousさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Paul OctaviousInstagram)「Simone deserved better than this and this is why the @blkarchivist project is important. I don’t want to use this post to bring down the accomplishments of either Simone Biles and Annie Leibovitz. My heart breaks thinking that, for Simone Biles, this was supposed to be an important moment (a Vogue cover, shot by a legendary photographer). And now, the conversation and focus has turned from her accomplishments, to one that focuses on the quality of her photo. However, the people at @voguemagazine need to read the room. There have been too many of these incidents and we have been giving you the side eye for decades. Stop putting your cover models in these situations. We are in a moment, where BIPOC human beings are on the forefront, telling our stories and showing our beauty. And for some reason, with all of our technology and experience in image capture, certain folks can't seem to get it right, or frankly, it seems they can't be bothered to make the effort. Capturing / presenting darker skin tones In photography has always had a rough past. It started with film, where the accuracy of colors in a photograph were based on the colors of a white skin tone. Though this made white people look great in photos, it made darker skin folks look dull or super shiny. This problem was only fixed when industries like furniture companies couldn’t showcase the different colors of wood or chocolate factories couldn’t showcase their multi colored sweets. As the years went on and digital became the tech of choice, it became easy for photographers and editors to misrepresent a model's skin tone to cater to different audiences. Now it's 2020 and we have the technology that can capture the richness, beauty, and accuracy of dark skin. We also have the internet, where we can find BIPOC photographers who can capture that beauty and accuracy of their BIPOC subjects, but need to be let in the door. I’m not saying white photographers can’t photograph non white folks at all. This particular moment wasn’t just a beauty shoot, this shoot had weight to it and people need to recognize these types of moments….continued in comment section #blackphotographer #simonebiles #vogue @blkarchivist」7月14日 2時11分