charlotte.gush / advertising, age, All walks, all walks beyond the catwalk, allwalks, body image, diversity, fashion, natural beauty, photoshopped images, post production, real beauty, retouching, Zina Graber /

The ‘retouching’ of imagery is all around us; the process is used to ‘perfect’ most, if not every, photograph within the media. Natural beauty is often disguised by the detailed manipulation of ‘imperfections’ during the post-production process, producing a glamorous illusion of many icons in our culture. Magazine editors have argued that the reasoning behind [...]