Can an image save a life?
Vimbayi Kajese |
TEDxOakland
• November 2018
We take the images we are passively fed for granted. Yet, when Vimbayi Kajese points out that 85% of the world is made up of ‘People of Colour’ but aren’t represented in ads. In this talk, she explains how this vacancy in media, toys and especially image searches, has dire, even fatal real-life consequences. “Can an image save a life?” is a powerful (at times satirical) exploration and deconstruction of how everyday images create perceptions that rationalize even the deadliest of behaviours towards POC.