Angélica Dass
Angélica Dass (born 1979) is a Brazilian photographer based in Madrid[1] and the creator of the project Humanæ.[2] She gave a TED talk in March 2016 called "The beauty of human skin in every color" about how skin colors "make us see each other as different, even though we are equal."[3]
Biography
Angélica Dass was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1979.
Project Humanæ
She created her portrait project Humanæ in 2012[4] while studying at Spain's ETI.[5] She began with photographs of her Spanish husband, herself and their families. She then matched a strip of pixels from the noses to color cards from Pantone.[6] It is a catalogue of human skin colors that are displayed as a collage of Pantone portraits.[7] The display is intended to create a dialogue about how we see each other and how we view race, ethnicity and identity[8] and has included over 4,000 pictures of people in 17 countries and 27 cities around the world.[9] Humanæ is a traveling exhibit[10] and has been in such places as the Daelim Museum in Seoul, South Korea; the Uribitarte Promenade, in Bilbao, Spain; the Upho Urban Photo Festival in Malaga, Spain; the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, in Milan, Italy; and Habitat III, UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, in Quito, Ecuador;[11] the Migration Museum in London,[12] Kingsport, Tennessee and International Photography Festival in Israel.[13]
References
- "Meet the woman making a point about race by photographing every human skin tone". Newsweek. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- "Humanae by Angélica Dass". Vogue (in Italian). 16 February 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- Dass, Angélica. "Angélica Dass | Speaker | TED". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- Macdonald, Fiona. "The artist who reveals our Pantone shades". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- "AQ Top 5 Latin American Art Activists: Angélica Dass". americasquarterly.org. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- "An Artist Finds True Skin Colors in a Diverse Palette". Magazine. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- Angelica Dass's 'Humanae' breaks down categories of race, 17 July 2018, retrieved 20 November 2018
- "Where in the world has Humanae been?". TED Blog. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- Macdonald, Fiona. "The artist who reveals our Pantone shades". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- "An Artist Finds True Skin Colors in a Diverse Palette". 12 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- "Where in the world has Humanae been?". TED Blog. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- "Meet the woman making a point about race by photographing every human skin tone". Newsweek. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- Israel: 200 artists flock to Int'l Photography Fest, retrieved 24 July 2019