![]() ![]() But I have to remember, women are my audience for the images I take. I’ve internalized the beauty standards held up by the fashion and beauty industries for decades. It’s impossible not to.Īs a fashion photographer and lifetime consumer of fashion magazines, it would easy for me to perpetuate what has been done for decades before me. ![]() ![]() Even photojournalists, who are tasked with documenting something as it is, project their own biases, experiences, beliefs into constructing an image. Gender, racial and heteronormative stereotypes can be reinforced as can be the erasure of marginalized groups. How they are portrayed is internalized into the public psyche. How we portray our subject is how they are seen by a huge audience. As photographers, we have a lot power and, as the saying goes, a lot of responsibility. ![]()
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