Skin cancer is a big deal. A really big deal. According to the National Cancer Institute, in fact, it is one of the most common forms of cancer with over 68,000 new cases each year and an annual death toll of 8,700.
And the problem is, no pun intended, growing. With tanning booths and the narcissistic need for the elusive golden glow resulting in increasingly dangerous sun exposure, those numbers …
People born with physical abnormalities. People who have deformities due to accidents. Those scarred with pockmarks from adolescent acne. People visibly suffering from low self-esteem due to years of bad treatment at the hands of cruel school peers, abusive partners or workplace bullies. Not really the type of people you’d traditionally expect to be cast in high-profile music videos, are they?
Well, times are clearly a-changing, as this week the Kings of Leon advertised on Craigslist for actors for their next music video …
A British psychologist believes that the number of thin women on TV needs to be addressed, as this can trigger eating disorders in young women. The controversy has been especially hot in Britain recently due to the selection of sickly-looking contestant Cher Lloyd as the winner of the most recent season of X Factor. …
In the 1990s, photographer Corinne Day strove to offer an alternative to the gloss and excess of the fashion of the previous decade. Day took natural, black and white photographs, including the now-iconic image of a young Kate Moss wearing an Indian headdress on a cold Camber Sands beach - the image that launched Moss’s career.
Day began her work in the fashion industry by modelling herself, but at 5ft 6in, she was considered too short for the catwalk and ended up concentrating on catalogue work. Whilst working abroad in Japan Day met Mark Szaszy, her partner of 25 years. She taught herself how to use Szaszy’s camera in her spare time and, when the couple later settled in Milan, began photographing other models. Day shot her subjects sitting in their pyjamas, with no make-up on or with bags under their eyes. She said that she felt that such images ‘had life’ and that they weren’t ‘bland, or fake or covered in makeup.’
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