Does it matter if Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirke look beautiful or not?

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Source: Instagram/lonelylingerie

The newly released images of Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirke are absolutely awesome – in fact they make up what is probably the best underwear campaign I can remember seeing – but let’s be real I don’t spend a lot of time remembering underwear ads.

Lonely, the underwear brand says the campaign “features candid portraits of inspiring women in their natural environments wearing Lonely in their own way” which is lovely marketing talk. But naturally, everybody else is talking about how the two girls look in their undies.

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Don’t be the person in these photos

Haley Morris-Cafiero

I didn’t know how to feel about this when I first saw it, the idea of public shaming is abhorrent to me, more so since reading Jon Ronson’s spectacular book So You’ve Been Publicly  Shamed. But here was a slew of self portrait photographs of a woman who dared to be fat showing the reactions she received from people in the street.

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“When photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero developed a self-portrait she had taken in Times Square, something stood out. There in the background, surrounded by a riot of colourful advertising and soaring tower blocks, was a man smirking at her back.

Instead of being hurt, Haley was intrigued, turning it into the first piece in her extraordinary series Wait Watchers, which looks at the meaning of other people’s stares.

“He was being photographed by this woman, so to have him focused on me was really interesting,” Haley, an associate professor at Memphis College of Art, told news.com.au. “Then five minutes later, it happened again.”

The 39-year-old began setting up her camera in crowded streets, beaches and shopping districts all over the world, using a remote to capture how other people reacted to her. The result is a revealing and uncomfortable collection of suppressed smiles, sneers, puzzlement and wide-eyed fascination.

“I don’t care what anybody thinks,” she said. “I pick images if something looks critical on a stranger’s face.”

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