Industry as Pygmalion

The beauty industry sees all photography subjects as raw clay to be molded. Even beautiful young women who are already amazing to look at. So don’t be discouraged, ladies, when the image on the magazine makes you feel just not quite so. That feeling comes from recognizing you are not looking a human, but an edited version of a human, that is not quite so, viscerally. You are absolutely, genuinely, adorably and honestly quite so, quite imperfectly... Read More