The Perfect Body

Introduction

Body image issue is how someone sees themselves when they look in the mirror or

even when they picture themselves in their mind. Body image issue is also what

you believe about your own appearance, also how you feel about your body, which

is your height, your body shape, weight and even skin color. A body image issue is

also how we feel about our own body. Sometimes body image is negatively

impacted by one or more significant situations. For instance, the media is one

cause of many women and men having body image issue. Some ways that the

media is involved is by, using thin models with perfect hair, skin, tan, and body.

When images like this are posted all around one tends to think that maybe that is

the way a person should look. This then causes people to start judging their

appearance that then leads them to losing weight to enhance their appearance, and

make them feel better about themselves and their bodies. That is when the

restrictive eating and over exercising comes in then comes the different eating

disordered and weight obsession that develops into anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia,

and compulsive overeating or binge eating disorder. Which is considered self-harm

then there is the other ways of changing their look like plastic surgery and using

different chemicals to change hair or even skin color. That is why it is important to

love ourselves, if looking like the post models is what you want there other ways

of changing your self-image which is diet and exercise. Media has to take the role

to advice teens; women and man that we do not need to have the same look as

everyone. We should love ourselves just the way we are, because that is what

makes us different from one another.

The idea that I went with for my photo essay was self-body image issues. I choose to stage the

girls in different angles and do different things because the way I posed them shows what

everyone sometimes feel or see themselves. I also decided to pose them in front of the mirror

because I did not want to show the girls faces to much because I wanted to make it seem like it

was I or anyone who is reading it or looking at the picture can see their own refection. I chose to

portray these issues because many women and men feel so kind of way about their body and by

me angling, taking the picture from behind and portraying them in different scenario helps the

person see that they do have an issue with their body and how to correct it the right way. There is

no need to self-harm ourselves when we can correct our issues in the correct matter. The picture

with the young lady vomiting is showing us that how wrong it is to try to lose weight by sticking

our finger down our throats, when we could just eat healthier and exercise. It also show how bad

it looks when we our doing that even in public places. Since these were some of the topics that

the girls had issues with I decided to do my picture based on that. I used the same girls that

talked about these issues with me, to create my photo essay. I used my iPhone to take the photos

because I am able to alter the picture, I can crop out things I did not want in the photo. I could

also add different filters to change the pictures mood, and also because it is easier to manipulate

the photos by using different angles. The reason I chose these images is because I wanted the

audience to see themselves. By taking the picture from behind with the girl’s image shown in the

mirror help to show everyone what they see when they see them self from a different angles.

That is why I chose to take the picture at the angle I did because you’re not seeing the young

lady looking at herself, you see yourself through someone else eyes. I found that it is important

to angle the picture the way I did because we tend to think that we do not have body image

issue, but when we see the a image that looks like how we feel. We come to notice our flaws.

Each photo shows what we has humans face when we look at ourselves, for instances many of us

face problems with our weight so we try to fix it by harming ourselves. Another thing that we

face hates our skin color and there is some people that hate that they are too skinny so they try to

change it by over eating. Each photo falls into place because it is in different steps that people

start disliking their image one day is their color another day their weight is like a roller coaster

ride with our body image.

I chose this image because it shows us that we all

at some point see our self in this image. We all

have something that we do not like about

ourselves. Sometimes when we see another

person on an image show their flaws then we

recognizes ours. I find that this image shows or

represent that no one is perfect we all have body

image issues, let it be our size, color, or height

that is always something we do not like about

ourselves. But we need to understand that there

are right ways to change that issue without self-harming ourselves. I feel that this picture is a

portrait seen as a depth of field which is something that as a great impact on the picture. By

showing or taking this photo is to show the feeling in her face about how she feels about her

body shows us the different emotion we all face when we look at ourselves in the mirror. I feel

that this photo portraits a lot of emotions and feels on how people see themselves in front of a

group of people and how they see themselves when they are alone. The reason why I say that is

because the way I took the picture from behind, so I do not see the young lady they would see

themselves because this is how they see themselves when they look at the mirror. When I look at

this picture I do not see the girl I see myself and how I feel about my love handles and how

upsetting it makes me feel when I look at myself when I wear a certain outfit.