The photography industry is blindingly white and blindingly male.

The whole reason I picked up a camera and started taking photos was because I was sick of not seeing people who looked like me represented in media. In ads, on magazine covers, in TV shows – the works. So I decided to pick up a camera and do it myself.

Today I’m joining thousands of black creatives taking part in the #VogueChallenge. It sees us reimagining what Vogue covers could have looked like all along. Vogue might have had a few black models and celebrities on their cover, but in their entire 125-year history there has been one Black photographer to photograph a cover and only 21 black women have appeared on the cover solo.

I am both a black woman and a photographer and even now there’s a part of me that flinches when I call myself a photographer because it’s a space I feel excluded from. And it’s really cool to finally see the fashion industry acknowledge that black creatives and models have been largely neglected by the industry.

The Vogue Challenge is a response to a letter Anna Wintour sent earlier this week to Vogue employees admitting that “Vogue has not found enough ways to elevate and give space to Black editors, writers, photographers, designers and other creators.” The sad part is Vogue could have looked like this all along.