Solange Knowles called out the London Evening Standard for placing a digitally altered photograph of her on their recent issue. On the cover, Solange’s braided crown was removed, the original, unaltered picture was published to her Instagram page along with the caption “dtmh”, “Don’t Touch My Hair.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bab6yVZhESx
You can view the edited pic below.
It could all be too little, too late as even the journalist who interviewed Knowles for the cover story has disowned the article in a series of tweets.
I am publicly disowning the Solange piece London Evening Standard published today. The entire piece was a fiasco despite my efforts.
— Angelica Jade (@angelicabastien) October 19, 2017
I told my editors to take my name off of the byline because they distorted my work and reporting in ways that made me very uncomfortable.
— Angelica Jade (@angelicabastien) October 19, 2017
Which was heartbreaking given how much work I put into it and my interest in Solange as an artist.
— Angelica Jade (@angelicabastien) October 19, 2017
I am writing this because I noticed my name on the online edition of the piece and want to be clear I didn't approve of it.
— Angelica Jade (@angelicabastien) October 19, 2017
They just took my name off of the byline after I put my foot down again. But it has been up for hours so this Twitter thread will stay up.
— Angelica Jade (@angelicabastien) October 19, 2017
Also, yes I know they kept a "reporting by" mention at the end. That acknowledges I did the interview but didn't write the profile.
— Angelica Jade (@angelicabastien) October 19, 2017
Disowning the piece this publicly is meant to get across my displeasure with what was published.
— Angelica Jade (@angelicabastien) October 19, 2017
The Evening Standard Magazine issued an apology for the photoshop job.
“We were delighted to have the chance to interview the wonderful Solange Knowles and photograph her for this week’s edition of ES magazine. It is therefore a matter of great regret that the finished cover artwork of the magazine caused concern and offence. The decision to amend the photograph was taken for layout purposes but plainly we made the wrong call and we have offered our unreserved apologies to Solange.”
What are your thought on the situation? Is this apology enough?
