To a degree this comes down to how you capture an image of their skin. Lighting has a big impact on how the result looks as does the medium you use to capture t

To a degree this comes down to how you capture an image of their skin. Lighting has a big impact on how the result looks as does the medium you use to capture the image. In the early days of color photography there was an issue with some films and reference images being tuned for the most common subject (light-skinned humans) and as a result if you tried to capture a mix of races you'd get bad results: https://petapixel.com/2015/09/19/heres-a-look-at-how-color-film-was-originally-biased-toward-white-people/ https://petapixel.com/2015/09/19/heres-a-look-at-how-color-f... This makes sense if you consider how light is (generalizing here) a broad spectrum of hues and a given material is most reflective for specific parts of the spectrum, so if you don't capture much there you'll get a low-contrast image, like stripping the R channel out of an RGB bitmap. It's of course possible to solve the problem for a wider set of skin tones, and it has been solved, but it takes more work. It's a subject of ongoing discussion/experimentation in film to this day: https://www.konbini.com/en/cinema/insecure-cinematographer-how-light-black-skin/ https://www.konbini.com/en/cinema/insecure-cinematographer-h...