尷尬失誤：澳洲雜誌在 Adut Akech Bior 族種議題專訪中竟誤用另一黑人女子照片

結實黝黑的皮膚、豐厚嘴唇與那閃亮雙眸，讓來自南蘇丹的Adut Akech Bior在近年的模特兒發展一直成績顯赫。然而縱使這位被稱為「黑珍珠」的接班人已躍上過多少封面與時裝周，卻竟然仍面對新人才會遇上的問題－－被識別錯誤。
早前一本澳洲雜誌擴寫了一篇Adut Akech Bior的訪問，然而在訪問旁邊所配置的照片竟然是另一位黑人模特兒。這個相當冒犯的失誤讓 Adut Akech 不得不在社交平台上發聲。

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澳洲 @whomagazine 雜誌在上星期出版有關Adut Akech Bior的訪問，在採訪中Adut Akech Bior談及了人們如何看待難民和族種議題，然而雜誌在文章附上的一張標示是Adut Akech的特寫照片竟然用錯了另一位黑人女生，相當諷刺。

 

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I’ve have given some deep thoughts the past few days on how to approach this situation that isn’t sitting well with me. For those who are not aware, last week @whomagazine (Australia) published a feature article about me. In the interview I spoke about how people view refugees and peoples attitude to colour in general. With the article they published a large photo saying it was me. But it was of another black girl. This has upset me, has made me angry, it has made me feel very disrespected and to me is unacceptable and inexcusable under any circumstances. Not only do I personally feel insulted and disrespected but I feel like my entire race has been disrespected too and it is why I feel it is important that I address this issue. Whoever did this clearly the thought that was me in that picture and that’s not okay. This is a big deal because of what I spoke about in my interview. By this happening I feel like it defeated the purpose of what I stand for and spoke about. It goes to show that people are very ignorant and narrowminded that they think every black girl or African people looks the same. I feel as though this would’ve not happened to a white model. My aim for this post is not to bash Who Magazine -they have apologised to me directly – but I feel like I need to express publicly how I feel. This has deeply affected me and we need to start an important conversation that needs to happen. I’m sure that I’m not the first person that’s experienced this and it needs to stop. I’ve been called by the name of another models who happens to be of the same Ethnicity, I find it very ignorant, rude and disrespectful towards both of us simply because we know that this doesn’t happen with white models. I want this to be somewhat of a wake up call to people within the industry it’s not OK and you need to do better. Big publications need to make sure that they fact check things before publishing them especially when its real stories and interviews and not just some made up rumors. To those who work at shows and shoots it’s important that you don’t mix up models names. Australia you’ve a lot of work to do and you’ve got to do better and that goes to the rest of the industry

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Adut Akech Bior 之所以不忿並非因為自己不受尊重，而是雜誌團隊的不尊業令她覺得黑人種族被不受尊重。認為每個黑人女孩或非洲人都看起來是一樣，是無知和狹隘。

再者，Adut Akech Bior 專訪內容正正是提出的黑人種族的議題，雜誌無心的失誤卻背道而馳，打敗了她接受專訪的目的，情況確是相當尷尬。「我希望這對業內人士的警醒，你們需要做得更好。大型出版物需要確保他們在發布之前對事物進行檢查，」Adut Akech Bior 再三叮囑時裝傳媒應該要在出版前再三審視，對於受訪者而言，這是個最基本的尊重。

 

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Adut Akech Bior在社交平台中表示：「這讓我相當生氣，感到非常不尊重，這是不能接受，也是不可原諒的。我不僅受到侮辱，而且覺得我整個民族都不受尊重，」「我覺得這不會發生在白色模特身上。我這篇文章的目的不是為了抨擊Who Magazine，他們雖然有向我道歉，但我覺得我需要公開表達我的感受。」