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A gay artist from Russia has created a response to the controversial photo of Garage magazine's white female editor-in-chief sitting on a “black woman” chair.
Dasha Zhukova, the Russian editor-in-chief of Garage magazine and the girlfriend of Russian billionaire and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, came under fire for an editorial photo showing her seated atop a chair designed to look like a black woman with a belt around her waist and thighs and her legs up in the air.
The photo, which caused outrage appeared one week ago, on January 20, 2014, Monday, which was also Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The lady eventually apologized, called the decision to appear with such a racially insensitive piece of art “regrettable.”.
She also reasoned that designer the actual intent was a “commentary on gender and racial politics.”
But, some did not find the apology sufficient.
Mr. Alexander Kargaltsev, a gay New York City-based photographer and LGBT activist, decided to stage his own response to the “outrageous and tasteless” portrait with an image of a naked black man seated on a naked white man, whose legs are folded up to create a “chair.”
“My own composition reverses the visual injustice and offense perpetrated by that editorial and in a way restores the equality of genders, races, and sexual orientations.
“Sadly, I understand very well that my work will be seen by most Russians as provocative and inappropriate, while that repulsive image (published on Martin Luther King’s Day of all days in a year) will hardly make anyone over there shake their head,” the author said.
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