Back in 2011, I wrote about the media and advertising construction of 'real women' as curvy creatures who weren't represented adequately by (apparently 'unreal') fashion and beauty models. I pointed out that all women are real - whether or not they are tall, black, short, trans, white, fat, athletic, thin, disabled etc - and so... Continue Reading →
Happy Birthday Photoshop
Believe it or not, Photoshop is almost 20 years old. There's a very interesting article on The Guardian's website on how we learned to love Photoshop, charting its journey from software that fitted on to a single floppy disk to a verb that is often used to insinuate that all commercial photography now lies to... Continue Reading →