Beauty with a punch?
Written by John MacphersonKatelyn
Why don’t people just see it for what it is? – Makeup. It’s an artist replicating something that looks realistic & yes, while disturbing, I’m sure the whole editorial staff wasn’t showing that they are for violence & abuse! How absurd to make something more than it is. It’s an artist’s rendition of wounds. Not necessarily male inflicted, battered women, but makeup made to make someone look ugly instead of beautiful. It’s disturbing in that it makes you look twice. Catch your attention. It’s bold, daring & interesting. Stop always overthinking things & allowing yourselves to be offended. You’re the only one who determines how you feel about things. That doesn’t always mean that is how they were meant to be portrayed.
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Survivor
As a crime s.u.r.v.i.v.o.r. viewing these images and reading these ‘comments’, I feel a strong urge to speak out, as I see things quite differently. First, go to your dictionary and r.e.a.d. the definition of exploitation. Next, look at the images again. There seems to be a wide range of reactions. Perhaps I can be of help, since I have the distinct advantage of working through this issue previously ‘firsthand’.Violence is not domestic or imported as it embeds itself in your flesh. It’s only label is pain. Do you see any signs of pain on the faces here? or a.n.y. emotion? So we are viewing mutilated faces (Yes, if you need , back to the dictionary) devoid of human emotion, yet their eye shadow is ‘just right’ so they have the label ‘victims of beauty’. Would they still look stunning if a tear ran down their cheek and smudged their eye make up? I think not. For then they might become human to us. They are ‘not so subtle’ posers to emulate?
Here comes the shocker. You are the victim, of a sick society who dehumanizes each and every one of us. A society that obliterates all natural sensitivities, depending on the classification i.e. collateral damage, murder, Slave trade, victims of ‘beauty’, enhanced interrogation, torture. The word game goes on and on till you see thru it and stop being the victim. It’s time to move forward.
Boots on the ground.
Survivor
Just two responses to Gina Marinelli’s article on ‘Violent Editiorial Art or Exploitation’ Refinery29.com
Author — John Macpherson
John MacPherson was born and lives in the Scottish Highlands. He trained as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards, before completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and then qualified as a Social Worker in Disability Services. Along the way he has cooked on canal barges, trained as an Alpine Ski Leader & worked as an Instructor for Skiers with disabilities, been a canoe instructor, and tutor of night classes in carpentry, stained glass design and manufacture, and archery. He has travelled extensively on various continents, undertaking solo trips by bicycle, or motorcycle. He has had narrow escapes from an ambush by terrorists, been hit by lightning, caught in an erupting volcano, trapped in a mobile home by a tornado, kidnapped by a dog's hairdresser, rammed by a basking shark and was once bitten by a wild otter. He has combined all this with professional photography, which he has practised for over 35 years. He teaches photography and acts as a photography guide & tutor in the UK and abroad. His biggest challenge is keeping his 30 year old Land Rover 110 on the road. He loves telling and hearing stories.