A recent Harper Bazaar’s cover featuring Megan Thee Stallion has expressed outrage over the representation of black people that are photographed in fashion.

The March issue of the magazine has two covers with the first featuring the award-winning rapper in a black Bardot top from Saint Laurent, and in the second she wears a black cape from Chanel and earrings from Bvlgari.

Following the publication, social media users criticised how the lighting reflected her skin tone and overall sombre mood of the shoot.

One user wrote online: “Nah this isn’t it, the photographer didn’t even know how to capture Megan’s skin correctly… in any of the pics.”

While another commented: “Hopefully (she) learned a lot from this,” another commented: “If you can’t capture dark skinned women just say that.”

Some even called for a black creative director to be on set during the shoot, despite it being styled by Samira Nasr, the magazine’s first black editor-in-chief.

Photographer, Collier Schorr, claimed that Megan Thee Stallion collaborated with her on the pictures throughout.

“A most remarkable experience making pictures with Megan Thee Stallion,” Schorr wrote on Instagram, “who discussed each picture and edited afterwards with me, total collaboration as it should be to make together new images of her at this moment in her life.”

The rapper, who is known for her glamorous looks and modelling for Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty lingerie line, told the magazine in an interview that her style was evolving.

She said, “I’m realising that I don’t have to be in full glam every time you see me, because I’m just getting more comfortable with myself and more comfortable with my skin.”