The Humanæ Project: Beautiful Variations

We recently returned from a trip to New York City to take in a couple Broadway shows and to visit on of my favorite museums – the American Museum of Natural History.

John and I wandered around a couple of hours and came upon this amazing exhibition based on the Humanæ Project – a collection of more than 4500 portraits of people from 20 different countries around the world by Brazilian photographer Angélica Dass.

From one of the panels in the exhibit:

BEAUTIFUL VARIATIONS

The portraits gathered here celebrate the diversity of human skin tones. For centuries skin color has been misused to separate people into groups we regards as races – divisions used to justify discrimination, segregation and genocide. Yet the genes associated with skin color represent just a tiny fraction of our genetic makeup. We are all genetically quite similar, and the small variations that distinguish us contribute to the beauty of humanity.

Look at all those beautiful shades of humanity displayed on the large exhibit poster (my photo does not do the image justice).

Here is an image from the photographer’s website – angelicadass.com – I highly recommend you visit her website to see the large collection of exquisite images of our fellow humans on this earth.

The skin colors were matched to a Pantone color. Pantone is the standardized color matching system…that creates a universal language for color (Google AI).

I’ve always been told that I am a “Person of Color” (not considered white or of European origin per Google AI) but we are all “People of Color” – just different Pantone colors!

Let’s all just embrace our beautiful variations!