Medical conditions can look different depending on a person’s skin tone. In many healthcare resources the majority of pictures are of people with light skin tones. This means people with darker skin experience greater chance of misdiagnosis than people with lighter skin. To help, we want to take pictures of medical conditions on a range of skin tones and create a digital collection of photographs. These pictures will be helpful for teaching and identifying conditions in all skin tones, leading to faster diagnosis, and better experiences of healthcare.

To do this, we are running pop up photography sessions in community centres, religious spaces, GP surgeries and health centres in Bristol.