What drives my thesis project Models In Color is my sever desire to show how women of African and African-American decent can transcend the traditional roles the United States fashion industry has given to them. My thesis project will display models of African and African-American decent can too be economically viable in the mainstream high fashion industry within the United States. It is not very often the industry gives a woman of African decent the title of supermodel without her having to alienate her counterparts making her the token model of color that season. In my thesis project I will only use women of African or African-American decent in high fashion advertisements and editorials to dispel the myth women of color are not as economically viable in these advertisements.

This body of work will contain sixteen photographs. With sets of four images each image will stand on its own being a single image within a series of four. Each High Fashion advertisement/editorial will display women of color in a positive light. All photographs will be taken in raw format with a 35 mm Nikon digital SLR models D300 and the D3x to create the high-resolution prints required for advertisements. All prints will be processed with Adobe Photoshop CS 4 or greater. All prints will be professionally printed on Kodak Endura paper with a luster finish the final size of the prints will be 11x14 mounted on gator board.