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This Company Is Challenging The Whiteness Of Stock Photography
Huffington Post ^ | September 8, 2017 | Zeba Blay

Posted on 09/29/2017 8:20:40 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

A new company is tackling the stock photography industry’s overwhelming whiteness, one photo at a time.

TONL, created by photographer and Street Ettiquette founder Joshua Kissi and entrepreneur Karen Okonkwo, launched on August 23 with a goal to provide stock photos that feature a more diverse array of subjects and scenarios.

Kissi, a 28-year-old creative director of the company, told HuffPost that the inspiration behind the idea came from the personal experiences he and Okonkwo (who he met through his girlfriend) experienced in the media industry.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bs; culturewar; endwhiteshaming; garbage; revisionisthistory; waronwhites; whiteness; wtf
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1 posted on 09/29/2017 8:20:40 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Sounds racist.


2 posted on 09/29/2017 8:21:55 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I just noticed that about 99% of the pixels on this page are WHITE.

Oh, Dang.

But, if I close my eyes, they are all black.

What to do?


3 posted on 09/29/2017 8:23:06 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

From the article: “TONL has a deep social agenda, but in an age when Americans are proudly declaring themselves Nazis and white supremacists, what can diverse stock photography actually do? Kissi believes it can do a lot.”

Pretty blatant racist, anti-White propaganda.


4 posted on 09/29/2017 8:24:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I read another article where Getty is going to forbid Photoshopping pictures submitted to them. It seems there are too many anorexics in France, such that the French have criminalized altering commercial photos to make models look slimmer than they are. Getty’s preempting being regulated.


5 posted on 09/29/2017 8:25:44 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
White stock photography? Like this?


6 posted on 09/29/2017 8:26:59 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

They should sell their diversity photos with a background mask so that they’re black-drop ready. These people are total idiots if they think stock photos are “too white.” Art directors across the country are scrambling to find appealing images with one of everybody in it, to the point of buying two stock photos, one group shot and one of whatever preferred nonwhite group is missing from the first image, then Photoshopping the added diversity in.


7 posted on 09/29/2017 8:29:40 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Hey, this is America where if yo have good idea and there is a market for your product you can make a profit.

But my personal prediction is their business will crash harder than a North Korean rocket.

8 posted on 09/29/2017 8:30:09 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Huff-PO = Anti-White Garbage.


9 posted on 09/29/2017 8:32:39 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

E R A S U R E . . .


10 posted on 09/29/2017 8:33:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

How queer.

For the past 10+ years all stock photos I see at the bank, apartment leasing offices, corporate job sites, etc. show a diverse crowd of smiling yuppies, more women than men, with maybe a white woman or a white man among the ethnic mix. If there is a white woman and a white man, the guy is gay.

PS try searching “white couples” on google and duckduckgo image searches. Different assortment than comes up with other ethnicities.


11 posted on 09/29/2017 8:33:26 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Newbomb Turk

I doubt it. “People of color” are wildly overrepresented in advertising today.


12 posted on 09/29/2017 8:34:15 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: fieldmarshaldj

>> in an age when Americans are proudly declaring themselves Nazis

Name one.

Is there even a NAZI party in America?
What states are they registered in?
How many candidates have they petitioned to put on the ballot?

I can point to Communist parties across this country and proud Communist candidates.


13 posted on 09/29/2017 8:35:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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14 posted on 09/29/2017 8:37:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Liberals think America’s ethnic makeup resembles the business class lounge at JFK.


15 posted on 09/29/2017 8:38:16 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: a fool in paradise

This is the kind of advertising we see today. The stock photos, if that’s what these are, are clearly diverse. So what the heck are they bitching about?


16 posted on 09/29/2017 9:01:08 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Kissi — keep hitting the LSD there bud. What an idiot.


17 posted on 09/29/2017 9:01:20 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Let people sell the stock photography that others want to buy.


18 posted on 09/29/2017 9:12:44 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They won’t be happy until they drive the white people into the sea.


19 posted on 09/29/2017 9:18:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Democrats are a catch-all. They have Communist leftists and Nazi leftists. If it’s big government, statist, racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and totalitarian, the Democrats are their go-to party.


20 posted on 09/29/2017 9:23:00 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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