Restocking photos: Florida woman works to bring Black representation to stock images
Kenya Robinson couldn’t find photos with Black people, so she’s creating them
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Kenya (Robinson) works to bring representation to stock imagery with BLIXEL (Re)Stock Image Project. (Blixel Instagram) (Copyright 2021 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.)
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kenya Robinson remembers working on a marketing campaign and searching for a stock image of a Black woman wrapping her hands for kickboxing. With over 18,000 stock photos coming up in her search, she couldn’t find the look she needed.
“It struck me. I had been to a kickboxing class, I have had the opportunity to really live and continue to live a really full lifestyle; I’ve done a lot of cool things that I couldn’t find the representation of a Black person,” she said. “I ended up having to color (it). You know, color the skin tone using Photoshop.”