Weekly Filet #158: White and White Photography. And more.
The technology we build always reflects (and reinforces) mindsets, often without us knowing or consciously noticing it. Photography provides a striking example: Films used to be optimised for white skin at the expense of darker skin colors. The technical bias was finally addressed, ironically, not because of black people, but because white advertisers needed images of chocolate and wood furniture to look better. Syreeta McFadden's article is also a personal story: What it means for a child when you don't recognise yourself on photographs. A great read.
→ Teaching The Camera To See My Skin (Buzzfeed)
20 years after the Genocide in Rwanda, one of the few reporters who stayed in the country gives, for the first time, her account of the gruesome time.
→ Witness to genocide: Rwanda's horror (AFP)
Good piece from the newly launched Vox.com: Why people who are good at maths suddenly suck at maths when politics is involved.
→ How politics makes us stupid (Vox)
«It took him a long time to die. I just watched him. I watched him become the same color as the ground he was lying on.» The story of a killer with a joystick, a US army drone operator.
→ Confessions of a Drone Warrior (GQ)
Love this Wurlitzer-controlled light installation for the 2014 Montreux Jazz Festival.
→ Light Installation for the Montreux Jazz Festival (Cauboyz / Vimeo)
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