Color Blinded is a project bored out of the mind of lead artist Eddie Jag in 2018. Excerpt from the artist explaining the project:”The initial concept came to me after hearing a saying meant to indicate a person as tolerant and sensitive to racial, cultural, and ethnic struggles. This statement might come in the form of something like this: ‘I’m colorblind; I don’t see color.’ Registering someone’s openness to all races, cultures, and ethnicities.However, that statement troubled me as it did not accurately reflect the qualities that will open someone’s mind. Exposure to other cultures and ethnicities different from yourself is vital to diminishing irrational human fears of those they do not understand. So instead of being ‘colorblind,’ I proposed that we be blinded-by-color instead. Surround yourself with all the beautiful colors in the spectrum of both nature and the human race. Diversity is beautiful and something we should cherish.So, for now, God has not bestowed too much power for change in my hands; I’m simply a photographer. All I can do to showcase my viewpoint is to create art and hope that it inspires others. So what is it about colors that make some so afraid?I present to you Color Blinded, an effort to smash through societal prejudices by showing the beauty in color diversity.I dedicate this project to my soon-to-be-born daughter, Josephine. May you grow up in a beautifully colored world.”
Eddie
Producer/Lead Artist/Retoucher – Eddie Jag, IG: https://www.instagram.com/eddiejagmedia/ ; Website Project Page: https://eddiejag.com/
Makeup – Jenny Bouton, IG: https://www.instagram.com/jennybouton/
Hair – Astrid Castro, IG: https://www.instagram.com/astrid.gabriela/
Model – Sevahna de Leon, IG: https://www.instagram.com/sevahna/
Model – Jayvoni Abbot, IG: https://www.instagram.com/illestbrownskin/
Model– Yolanda Damon, IG: https://www.instagram.com/native_la_la/