Flemish photographer Sanne De Wilde’s subjects for her series ‘Snow White’ are all albinos, people born with a rare recessive gene that strips their skin, hair, and sometimes their eyes, of the colour pigments that humans usually have. “They are a metaphor, a symbol for stereotypes,” De Wilde says. “They magnify the erroneous idea of human weakness and physical fragility, but also that of an invincible strength.” We tend to view people with differences as weaker, or more fragile, but we also tend to forget that strength comes from within, and cannot be determined by external markers — the core idea behind De Wilde’s quietly powerful photographs.
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