Simply Because They Don’t Exist
Notwithstanding all the whales, witches, and werewolves that pop up in people’s stories, some of the hardest photos to find for my book cover work are actually the most mundane ones. This is the twenty-first century; interracial couples and heavy women abound in this country, but for some reason not many of them find their way into a professional photo studio. Photographers have this thing for shooting photogenic white people on a strict diet of fruit and water, and they…