Name: 【TED】Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color (The beauty of human skin in every color | Angélica Dass)
Uploaded: 2017-02-10T05:00:24.000Z
Duration: 11 min 28 s
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since the last country in the world abolished slavery

since Martin Luther King pronounced his "I Have A Dream" speech.

where the color of our skin not only gives a first impression,

from whom he inherited an intense dark chocolate tone.

He was adopted by those who I know as my grandparents.

has a porcelain skin and cotton-like hair.

My grandpa was somewhere between a vanilla and strawberry yogurt tone,

My mother is a cinnamon-skin daughter of a native Brazilian,

and a man [who is] a mix of coffee with milk,

Outside home, however, things were different soon.

I remember my first drawing lessons in school

but I never understood the unique flesh-colored pencil.

My skin was brown, and people said I was black.

I was seven years old with a mess of colors in my head.

By helping in the kitchen at a friend's party,

just because I was walking alone on the beach with European friends.

visiting my grandma or friends in upper class buildings,

I was invited not to use the main elevator.

I get to used to it and accept part of it.

However, something inside of me keeps revolving and struggling.

I chose one with the skin color of a lobster when sunburnt.

Since then, a new question started to chase me.

As you can understand, this is my last concern.

my story led me to make my personal exercise as a photographer.

Humanae is a pursuit to highlight our true colors,

white, red, black or yellow associated with race.

It's a kind of game to question our codes.

It's a work in progress from a personal story to a global history.

I portray the subjects in a white background.

Then I choose an 11-pixel square from the nose,

and look for the corresponding color in the industrial palette, Pantone.

then more and more people joined the adventure,

thanks to public calls coming through the social media.

I thought that the main space to show my work was the Internet

because I want an open concept that invites everybody

to push the share button in both the computer and their brain.

from someone included in the Forbes list,

to refugees who crossed the Mediterranean by boat.

In Paris, from the UNESCO Headquarters to a shelter.

And students both in Switzerland and favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

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【TED】Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color (The beauty of human skin in every color | Angélica Dass)

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