WHITE PRIVILEGE AND BLACK GENOCIDE

WHITE PRIVILEGE AND WHITE GENOCIDE (BY CAMERON RUSSEL), Irene Vezzoli:

Cameron Russel, who has been working as a model for ten years, says that the image is very powerful, but also superficial. It has a huge impact on our lifes and except for surgery, there’s very little that we can do to transform the way we look like.

She explains that she became a model because she’s a pretty white skinny girl and nowadays, this is the description of sexyness. Furthermore, she thinks that if she was a black girl, she probably wouldn’t be working as a model.

As an experimented professional, she knows that all of her photos are retouched, and she says that they doesn’t reflect reality, because they are constructions made by another group of professionals. In her opinion, this makes the rest of the society feel like they’re less, that they are ugly, because they do nothing but compare their bodies with the models ones.

She also points out that she doesn’t understand why so many girls want to become models when they can be whatever they want and have better lifes than models have.

To conclude, she says that we all should be more comfortable knowing the power that our image have on our sucesses and on our failures, and it shouldn’t scare us.