Today portrait photographer and writer Abhi Chinniah has launched an exhibition that serves as a spiritual sequel to a series of photographs she showed in 2020 exploring colourism.
This one's called 'Melanin Rising', and it uses portraits, essays, and interviews to examine skin-lightening practices that exist today and the ways media tends to represent dark-skinned people.
You can catch it at Depot Artspace in Devonport until 28 September, but if you're not around Auckland you can head to loveyourmelanin.com to take a look.
One of Abhi Chinniah's images from her exhibition, Melanin Rising Photo: supplie
