Interview: Photographer Victoria Janashvili Talks The Beauty Of 'Curves'

You have previously shot covers for magazines such as GQ. Did you consider the likelihood of the use of Photoshop for those?

Photoshop is essential for commercial photography now. But Photoshop and retouch doesn't mean changing shapes of a model or erasing the natural wrinkles. Photoshop is essential to help images look bright and for the colors to be perfected as well as lot of other things. I'm definitely against changing the subject's shape and size, but I use Photoshop a lot in my work for other purposes. What would you propose as a solution to help young girls grow up to love their bodies? Definitely to promote diverse beauty. It's important that a girl knows that she could be celebrated as beautiful no matter what color or size she is. It's difficult for an orange to feel like it's a good fruit when there are only bananas on billboards and in the movies. Also, girls are often complimented for their beauty and not for their other achievements, which makes them think that beauty might matter more than being an excellent student or a kind person - that needs to change. [Photo courtesy of Victoria Janashvili]