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Let me tell you a story. I’ve always been baba dudu. Dad mum siblings all black. We had zero insecurities about it. Infact I always saw baba dudu as a compliment till I had my first kid. He was fair in complexion like his mum...(a thread)
Everyone and I repeat everyone except my immediate family that came to visit said “thank God say he no black like you”. Of course it was all funny but it really made me see how people perceived skin blackness. His sister 2 years later came out black. So I started thinking...
will this girl grow up wanting to be fair like her brother since the closest people to her might share those notions. It’s a big problem. The alaafin, custodian of the Yoruba race is skin white surrounded by light skinned women....
Big Nigerian Brands celebrate blackness using light skinned people. I started writing a story about it and so had to do research which made me realize something especially for us filmmakers....
Don’t be deceived. What you’ve heard is true. Lighting and color grading black people is a lot of stress. These cameras were built primary with white and pale skin tones in mind (Google Shirley card). But we can’t keep blaming white people for that in 2020....
We have a responsibility and it’s a technical one. If we keep waiting for white people to solve skin tone issues in film and photo, it’ll never happen. Why isn’t anyone developing cameras using AI to isolate black skin tones properly so sensors get even more sensitive and also...
use algorithms for black noise reduction. Why are we using Oyinbo techniques to light our actors. This is why we barely make colorful films. everything looks dirty dead and oyinbos encourage us with awards. We just cut and paste. We need to stop complaining and do the work...
We need to do experiments and research. We need to write plugins and software to treat black skin especially in film. Woo lemme stop typing
Thank you @BeverlyNaya for putting this out there!! Everyone should see it.
Thank you @BeverlyNaya for putting this out there!! Everyone should see it.
