Sociological Perspective

The following photographs were inspired by Lauren Greenfield and her work, Girl Culture.  She is a documentary photographer who explores girls in society with a focus on eating disorders and gender identity.  I am especially interested in the social impact of her photographs and how they have a social message behind them.  For example, her series Thin explores eating disorders among women and the message is that there is a problem with the way beauty is viewed in our society.  While Lauren Greenfield leaves her images open to interpretation of that message, I decided to add words to my images in order to create a more direct message.  My images have a specific role of representing how media instills these ideas into females at a young age and the pressure to look like models we see in magazines or on TV.  These ideas are unrealistic however, media makes them appear to be possible and desirable...as long as you buy their products and skip a few meals of course.  This leads to unhealthy lifestyles and low self esteem.