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Thao Hoga
The modeling industry gives young girls, particularly those under the age of 16, the pressure to acquire a perfect body type. This pressure has unfortunately caused many girls to develop eating disorders, like bulimia, anorexia, and dismorphia, to look like the models on the runway. I propose that the United States should begin to issue stricter rules on how models look in advertisements and on the runway, so young female audiences can be content with their body.
Another strategy Swinson would like to propose in the United Kingdom is to change curriculums in schools to include lessons on body images, health, and well-being. The United States already has several programs in schools that teach these lessons about eating disorders and how to live healthy, but to really be effective American schools really need to add a media literacy program to curriculums that teach children, especially young girls, how to analyze the information they absorb and asking about how it impacts their lives. It is impossible to believe that in order to protect young girls, parents have to completely shelter them from all media. And although we can hope that one day airbrushing and the pressure to be a size-0 will dissipate, it is impracticable to expect this change in the next five years. For now, it is important to teach girls to comprehend that these models and advertisements are portraying an unhealthy and unrealistic self-body image.
Obviously, there is still the need for change in the media and modeling industries. However, it is important to realize that people and organizations are already speaking out about the unattainable physical goals the media places on women, and how that needs to stop. If society continued to create websites, events, and issue proposals about advertising strategies to Congress, girls will hold more-self confidence and hopefully stop taking part in harmful body disorders.
What other celebrities are good role models? Those famous for taking a stand, such as environmental activist Greta Thunberg, gun control activist David Hogg, and female education activist Malala Yousafzai, can have a positive influence by encouraging teens to organize around the issues they care about that have social and personal value.
If you want to help guide your teen in understanding the influence these figures may have over behavior, attitudes, values, and other aspects of their life and identity, you need to first have a strong connection with your son or daughter. This means focusing on trust, empathy, reciprocity, vulnerability, and healthy intimacy between you and your teenager.
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The present study examined whether trait physical appearance perfectionism moderates young women's body image following upwards appearance comparison to idealized body images on social media, and whether cognitive coping mediates the relationship between physical appearance perfectionism and resulting body image from social comparison processes. Female undergraduate students (N = 142) were randomly assigned to either 1) compare the size of their body parts to the body parts of attractive Instagram models, or 2) an appearance-neutral control condition. All participants completed measures of trait physical appearance perfectionism, pre and post measures of state body image, and state cognitive coping processes. Appearance comparison to the models resulted in lowered confidence and increased appearance and weight dissatisfaction. High trait physical appearance perfectionism predicted lower confidence and higher weight dissatisfaction and appearance dissatisfaction, and these relationships were mediated by engagement in rumination and catastrophizing. Clinical implications of the findings are discussed.
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4) ANY PHOTO SESSION WITH ANY PERSON UNDER 18 HAS AT LEAST ONE PARENT OR GUARDIAN (LEGAL) PRESENT. Not a note from mommy, not a friend of a friend or a friend of the family (unless I know the family - and then I've talked to mom and or dad)
BTW don't take legal advice from the internet. It's usually wrong. As far as I know there is no requirement that taking a photograph a minor (someone under the age of 18) requires the presence of a parent or legal guardian. It's sensible, it's prudent, but it's not required. Minors cannot sign a valid release, but that's another issue.
2. I can't imagine why anyone would touch something like this with a 10 foot pole. There are so many things that could go wrong. When the "best case" of something going wrong with an unpaid job like this is a ruining of your professional/personal reputation (or an asskicking by an angry father) and the "worst case" is an embarrassing trial and years in jail, there isn't a lot of upside.
America especially is very screwed up right now and needs money, so don't do anything that will cause you grief. Nothing wrong with the artist-model relationship (it's thousands of years old), but nowadays people are out to make money, so don't bother. Get parental consent then you're good to take pics.
I would advise the OP to stay away, if at all possible. OTOH, it's done all the time for commercial concerns, and I see the ads in the local Sunday ads for different dept stores, and some with much younger kids, so there are perfectly legitimate ways to approach this kind of shoot. I would talk with a lawyer specializing in photographic cases. Simpler to stay away, or find an 18+ yr old that can pass for 15. Did I mention to avoid this? :-)
I am 100% with the other responders, I'm not sure why anyone would shoot a 15 year old in lingerie anyway to be honest . This is clearly a touchy issue driven, quite rightly, by the desire to protect minors. I would walk away and advise her to wait a few years and enjoy being a kid.
A professional photographer simply can not shoot minors for fun like anyone else can. Not even sportswear. Something akin to if I punch a guy and break his jaw, oops, if a pro kick boxer in the same location under the same circumstances punches a guy and breaks his jaw- it's assault with a deadly weapon.
If you meet a potential client and they turn out to be underage you tell them it's been great meeting but any further communications must be initiated by their parents. Minors do not have the right to engage a person in a business enterprise. As a pro, by default that's what shooting with you is.
From a career point of view shooting minors is less the problem than shooting minors or would be models of any age, who are not competitive and are not going to work, who are not with a creditable agency already or ready to walk in and sign. If you regularly present work featuring models who are outside accepted industry parameters you will develop zero credibility. It is one obvious difference between a pro photographer and a MWC.
If you find a girl who is 5'10", 34-24-34 and freak'n amazing looking and turns out to be 15 you should be escorting the girl and her parents to the best agency you have connections with. Then after she signs you shoot tests for her through the agency.
Ken Hansen--probably not the Leica guy--has a website He does model portfolios, apparently. He has an elaborate set of restrictions on shooting as per the age of the model. I presume the restrictions were suggested by a lawyer. They make for amazing reading. Look at Model Information. Here:
"...Many of Sturges' works feature young girls and boys in the nude. As such, some critics have claimed that his work is child pornography disguised as fine art. In April 1990, FBI agents raided his studio, confiscating his equipment and his work, and alleged he was creating child pornography. The art world and naturist communities were enraged, and publicly defended him. After over a year of investigation, the case was thrown out by a grand jury. Eventually Sturges got most of his work and equipment back. Later in the same year, his work came under attack by Christian conservatives led by Operation Rescue and Focus on the Family. Protestors picketed at major bookstores around the country which stocked his works. Sturges received more support from civil libertarians and artistic associations. Sturges also defended himself through a series of talks and interviews..." [credit photography-now.net]
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