{"id":176469660,"date":"2016-11-17T23:33:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T05:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176469660"},"modified":"2016-11-17T23:33:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T05:33:30","slug":"culture-diverse-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2016\/11\/17\/culture-diverse-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"CULTURE: Diverse Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176469661\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/soul-edition.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176469661\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-176469661\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/soul-edition.png\" alt=\"1 November 2016\" width=\"502\" height=\"57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/soul-edition.png 960w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/soul-edition-300x34.png 300w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/soul-edition-920x104.png 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176469661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1 November 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 36pt;\"><strong>Diverse Beauty<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-author\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>written by\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by The Soul \u00c9dition\" href=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.com\/author\/thesouledition\/\" rel=\"author\">The Soul \u00c9dition<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><a title=\"Permalink to Diverse Beauty\" href=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.com\/2016\/11\/01\/diverse-by-alexi-lubomirski\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail  wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_cover_thesouledition.png?w=840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_cover_thesouledition.png?w=840 840x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_cover_thesouledition.png?w=150 150x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_cover_thesouledition.png?w=300 300x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_cover_thesouledition.png?w=768 768x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_cover_thesouledition.png?w=1024 1024x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_cover_thesouledition.png 1237x\" alt=\"Cipriana and TK Quann - \u2018Stunning twin sisters who are writers\/singers\/bloggers. They have this incredible hair that you want to somehow translate in one image\u2019\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After photographing the actress\u00a0<strong>Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Alexi\u00a0Lubomirski<\/strong>\u00a0was so impressed by her\u00a0natural beauty that he felt she didn\u2019t need studio lighting because she radiated light from within. He was then inspired to create a\u00a0book, which represents diverse beauty without boundaries.<span id=\"more-14025\"><\/span>After shooting her, it struck him that he rarely had the chance to photograph beautiful women with a range of different \u201clooks\u201d for professional assignments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Often when he submitted a list of models he was interested in shooting, responses would be along the lines of\u00a0<em>\u201cWe love her, but\u2026\u201d<\/em>,\u00a0<em>\u201cHer hair is a problem\u2026\u201d<\/em>,\u00a0<em>\u201cShe is too dark.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0In response, Lubomirski conceived\u00a0<strong><em>\u2018<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.damianieditore.com\/en-US\/product\/577\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Diverse Beauty\u2019<\/em><\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0which celebrates many different types of female beauty through sophisticated and lively fashion photographs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>\u2018Diverse Beauty\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0embraces all beauty and aims to put every type of beauty on a pedestal, so that everyone who looks at it, no matter her race, size, color, or sexual orientation, can identify and see herself as beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">About Lupita Nyong\u2019o\u00a0he says \u2018Instead of her being a subject that needed light to be shone on her, and shot from a particular angle, she beamed light from within. She was also a natural beauty. When I say natural, I mean I believe that what was in front of me was essentially \u201cher\u201d.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-14032 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_1_thesouledition.png?w=580&amp;h=852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_1_thesouledition.png 528x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_1_thesouledition.png?w=102&amp;h=150 102x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_1_thesouledition.png?w=204&amp;h=300 204x\" alt=\"diversebeauty_1_thesouledition\" width=\"580\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14034 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_3thesouledition.png?w=840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_3thesouledition.png 580x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_3thesouledition.png?w=112 112x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_3thesouledition.png?w=224 224x\" alt=\"diversebeauty_3thesouledition\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14033 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_2_thesouledition.png?w=840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_2_thesouledition.png 581x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_2_thesouledition.png?w=112 112x, https:\/\/thesouledition.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/diversebeauty_2_thesouledition.png?w=225 225x\" alt=\"diversebeauty_2_thesouledition\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesouledition.com\/2016\/11\/01\/diverse-by-alexi-lubomirski\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/thesouledition.com\/2016\/11\/01\/diverse-by-alexi-lubomirski\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Diverse Beauty written by\u00a0The Soul \u00c9dition After photographing the actress\u00a0Lupita Nyong\u2019o, Alexi\u00a0Lubomirski\u00a0was so impressed by her\u00a0natural beauty that he felt she didn\u2019t need studio lighting because she radiated light from within. He was then inspired to create a\u00a0book, which represents diverse beauty without boundaries.After shooting her, it struck him that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176469660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176469660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176469660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176469663,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176469660\/revisions\/176469663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176469660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176469660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176469660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}