These works are a series that I recently completed for my portrait painting class. The subjects of the paintings are all individuals who have been affected by albinism, which is the lack of skin pigmentation. Albinos often suffer from medical complications and are seen as social outcasts or even associated with witchcraft. In some African cultures, albinos have been murdered by witch doctors for the use of their bones. All the individuals that I selected come from different racial backgrounds and yet because they are afflicted with albinism share these same physical characteristics, which I personally believe to be strikingly beautiful, and yet eerie and somewhat other-wordly.
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