I respect a person s right to empower themselves through that venue. I don t hold contempt. I ve let go of bitterness. As opinionated as she may be, Janssen realizes the pitfalls of using photography with its representational nature as a mode of social commentary. It can be hard when using a camera to not produce the same image through a picture that is presented in a beauty pageant both involve views of women dressed and made up on display.
Fashion magazines represent women in a certain way in photographs.
Society tends to view photographs as objective truths something they can never be just as pageants promote the idea that there is an objective standard for beauty. Both pageants and photographs are subjective, socially and contextually. In this way editing serves her purpose. She can choose from an array of images which ones are going to be shown, and in turn what view is going to be represented through her work. I try not to be reiterating narrowly defined ideals, or even narrowly defined opinions.