Each and every day, women are bombarded with messages from the media that impose certain criteria for beauty on them and dictate how they ought to look like. They standardize beauty even though it is an utterly relative and subjective concept. The media limits the definition of female beauty and narrows it down to a singular figure. Consequently, this puts a lot of pressure on women and delivers the notion that they are not good enough. Thus, they strive to attain the unrealistic and sometimes impossible portrayal of beauty and femininity in the media. In this photograph, we can see how the Barbie face seems strikingly odd and does not fit well within the picture. This illustrates that the supposedly “ideal” standards of beauty cannot be applied to every woman out there. Moreover, the contrast between Barbie’s skin color and that of the model shows that beauty is such a broad concept that it can easily encompass the diverse shapes and figures of women. The contrast between Barbie’s blonde hair and the model’s brown hair serves to illustrate the same point. All in all, this photographs aims to show the absurdity of restricting female beauty and to draw women’s attention that uniqueness and individuality are what truly makes them beautiful in their own ways. 

The photo describes the effect of media on people that can be often negative. The media often adopts certain agendas that they manage to impose on people’s minds. The media content may not always represent the different sects of society, and it can even ignore the real needs and tendencies of the majority of the audience and receivers. Thereby, media creates a spiral of silence among the majority of people, giving them the impression that they are the minority. That is why a newspaper is featured like a person silencing Amira through putting her hand on her mouth. Moreover, people can be overwhelmed by the amount of messages delivered by the media that can be hard to distinguish their validity. Thus, people can be easily manipulated, and swayed between different opinions without being able to think independently, or just lose their interest to know because of feeling lost. That eventually leads to people isolating themselves in a sphere of fear and doubt on the authenticity of facts they perceive or take for granted, which is epitomized in the scared look on Amira’s face. Light is focused on Amira’s face to make the look in her eyes and the media’s hand on her mouth more obvious, and less light on the background that is the newspaper, as not always people realized the media effects. However, the white color of the newspaper makes it clear enough, reflecting the light.