#Repost with @africanrenaissancemovement from @dopeblackness - #ShuduGram is a 3-D image! 😯 What's crazy is that I've shared several of her pics admiring her amazing skin and her beautiful eyes. 😍 After news leaked that Shudu was just a digital rendering, the announcement was made that she's the 1st "Digital Supermodel". This is 2018 folks...Thoughts??? ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ "A year ago, photographs of a model named @Shudu.Gram began appearing on Instagram. She had luminous dark-brown skin and perfectly symmetrical features, and, in a series of photos, wore #iindzila, the neck rings associated with the #Ndebele people of #SouthAfrica. Soon, her otherworldly beauty attracted a following, with her photos shared on pages celebrating women of color, accompanied by laudatory hashtags such as #blackisbeautiful, #melanin, and #blackgirlsrock. What her massive following didn't know is that Shudu was not a human model but a computer-generated character. By design, Shudu takes after real-life models—her eyes “were inspired by Iman’s, with her beautiful deep sockets,” he said, referring to the Somali fashion model born #ZaraMohamedAbdulmajid. But his biggest influence, he told me, was a special-edition Princess of South Africa Barbie doll, who, like Shudu, wears neck rings. Shudu Gram has courted a different kind of controversy, one originating from the fact that, as #HarpersBazaar revealed, earlier this year, her creator is a twenty-eight-year-old white man, the British photographer #CameronJamesWilson. “There’s a big kind of movement with dark skin models,” Wilson told the magazine. “So she represents them and is inspired by them.” (via @thenewyorker) ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ #DopeBlackness @DopeBlackness - #regrann
