Angélica Dass

In February and March 2022, an open air exhibition of her portraits was shown at the Gare du Nord in Paris, France, with several panels of individual portraits and two extra large pictures at the exterior of the train station.

In March 2016, Dass gave a TED talk called "The beauty of human skin in every color" about how skin colors "make us see each other as different, even though we are equal."

In 2012, Dass started her project Humanæ as a work-in-progress while studying at Spain's ETI. She began with portrait photographs of her Spanish husband, herself and their families. By matching a strip of pixels from the nose of a person's photograph to color cards from the Pantone color system, she has created a catalog of human skin colors that are displayed as a collage of Pantone portraits. This display is intended to create awareness about how we see each other and how we view race, ethnicity and identity It includes over 4,000 pictures of people in more than 17 countries and 27 cities around the world.

Angélica Dass (born 1979) is an award-winning Brazilian photographer based in Madrid, Spain and the creator of the photographic project Humanæ. With this project, she has created portraits of many different people from all over the world, showing a wide range of age groups, skin colors and personal backgrounds. Her aim is to invite viewers to recognize the similarity of humans, regardless of individual differences.

Angélica Dass was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1979 and is based in Madrid, Spain. She combines her photographic work with sociological investigation and public participation as a contribution to human rights all over the world.