Credit: Humanae, A Work in Progress, 2012-Present. Photography. Offical Website of Angelica Dass.
ANGELICA DASS
Humanae, A Work in Progress
For her project Humanae, Dass has taken more than a thousand portraits of people from very different parts of the world, showing that labels such as red, white, brown and yellow are pretty inaccurate ways to define human skin.
Angelica Dass presents the Humanæ Project. This Work In Progress is a study in skin and color. It is often said, "'Beauty is only skin deep.' Let us then assess the color, or what we think we see." Angelica Dass has done in Humanæ, which reflects on the colors beyond the borders of our codes by referencing the PANTONE® color scheme.
(PANTONE® Guides are one of the main classification systems of colors, which are represented by an alphanumeric code, allowing to accurately recreate any of them in any media. It is a technical industrial standard often called Real Color)
The project development is based on a series of portraits whose background is dyed with the exact Pantone® tone extracted from a sample of 11×11 pixels of the portrayed´s face. The project’s objective is to record and catalog all possible human skin tones.
Humanae; A Work In Progress Creation Video
