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Not just a hanger: The next photographer to meet Emily Ratajkowski on a set will have to think twice

Emily Ratajkowski published a kicking article in New York Magazine, which gave her the stage to voice her voice against photographers' treatment of photographers, their desire and the taking of their right to their image.

In painful experiences from her life, including a shocking story of sexual harassment, the model tries to shake the industry

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Thursday, September 17, 2020, 11:00 p.m.

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may be known to many as the international bikini queen, but alongside that, she is one of the most activist women in the fashion industry.

Ratajkowski, 29, often participates in demonstrations, is not afraid of being called a feminist and is not afraid to go against conventions, challenge the existing and express her opinion on a variety of issues such as women's body hair, sexual harassment and the Harvey Weinstein affair.

Last week she got a respectable stage to express her claims when she published a long and brave column in New York Magazine, through which she tries to shake up the entire modeling industry.

In the article, Ratajkowski tells several stories that everyone has in common - the moment she realized that her own character who appears in the photos does not belong to her - but to a photographer who photographed her.

The message that models today are an object in front of the photographer, and the fact that their image is the one experienced in the image is not enough to gain ownership.

It is important for us to note - there is a relationship between photographers and models in which both parties benefit.

One needs the other to exist, but in this case it is not a discourse on copyright, but a social discourse in which the model is perceived as a hanger, as a photographed object and not as a private, real person, with emotions.

Exactly the essence of the word that has been so eroded in recent years - desire.

From her lines one can understand feminist criticism.

The male photographers she met in her life again treated the female model as voiceless.

They made decisions for her, and she had no ability to do anything about it.

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The first story with which Ratkaikowski opens is the most refined of them all - a paparazzi photographer sued her after uploading to Story a photo he took.

A picture of her walking down the street with a bouquet of flowers hiding her face, a visual that particularly fascinated her.

Although Ratajkowski's figure is the one in the picture, the photographer sued the model and claimed she had no right to use it.

In the following story, Ratajkowski shares that she was invited to an exhibition of "Instagram paintings" by the artist Richard Prince.

The exhibition includes drawings of photos from Instagram, including a photo of her for a magazine cover.

"Everyone around me made me feel like I should be grateful that Richard Prince saw in my picture worthy of his painting. To me it felt weird that a great artist was worth a lot more money than me taking a picture from my Instagram and selling it," she says.

And the price?

$ 80,000.

At the time the close boyfriend coveted the picture, but Ratajkowski really did not understand why she had to pay money at all to buy her picture.

The picture of the quarrel.

Emily Ratajkowski with flowers instead of a head (Photo: splash)

The story with the same artist does not end there.

Richard Prince had another picture of Emily that he offered for sale - a picture from a photo shoot for Sports Illustrated, for which she received a salary of $ 150 on the day of the photo shoot and another $ 2,000 when the magazine was published, which she actually chose to buy with her then partner.

A few weeks after the two parted ways, she asked the ex for the piece and he said he handed over storage space.

When she asked the storage services for the picture, they demanded ten thousand dollars for its release, as this is the value of the picture on the market.

Here, too, the bottom line is the same - the photograph is not considered, and its image is a work of art worth money to the artist and not to her.

When the subject is no longer considered.

Emily Ratajkowski (Photo: GettyImages)

These are all the more subtle stories in Ratajkowski's exposed document, but they are just a preparation for the next and most painful next story of all - sexual harassment experienced in 2012 by a fashion photographer.

Ratajkowski says she was then at the beginning of her career, a young 21-year-old model. Her agent sent her to a photo shoot with photographer Jonathan Lider and told her she would spend the night with him.

She was not paid for this work, and the exposure following the publication of the photos in the magazine was supposed to be the reward.

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The two days she spent with the photographer, Lider, will therefore cause her to move uncomfortably in a chair at best and be shocked at worst.

Upon Emily's arrival at the venue, during the get-together and makeup, she received her first glass of wine for the evening.

Very quickly, she realized that these were lingerie photos and they would only take place during the night.

"He put lingerie on the chair in his kitchen. I figured out what kind of girl he wanted me to be in the pictures."

Later, even before the filming, Lider showed Ratajkowski nude Polaroid photos of an actress who he cast for a short film, after he had an affair with her.

By this point she was already after three glasses.

After dinner, where she barely ate to be ready for filming, they went to work.

After a few photos in lingerie, he offered to switch to nude photography.

Ratajkowski says she had already been photographed naked before meeting Lider and felt confident and proud of herself, but when she took off her clothes in front of Lider, "something in me came off," she said.

During the nude photos, no comments on her body were spared.

Sentences like - "These photos are only good thanks to your nipples".

Ratajkowski remained to sleep with Lider.

They went to bed when she was completely drunk.

According to her, much of what happened there is vague in her memory.

"I don't remember us kissing, but I do remember his fingers were inside me. It was really painful."

She pushed his hand away from her and stood up.

The next day she had already gone home.

One of the photos taken by Jonathan Lider

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The shocking harassment story that Ratajkowski tried to suppress, came back to her when the photographer pulled out a photo book with the same pictures from the horrible evening.

At the same time, the gallery announced that it would hold an exhibition of the photographs.

That was the moment she got into a legal spin, trying to protect her character in the photos and prevent the photographer from making some more money at her expense.

Here, too, as in all the previous cases she flattened, her body, her image, her face were used, without confirming it in front of her.

In the end, Ratajkowski decided not to file a lawsuit against the photographer.

"The book is already there, out there. The pictures have been circulated all over the internet. It can't be stopped."

Leader, for his part, said in one of the interviews: "I have worked with more than 500 models in my career. Emily Ratajkowski is one of the most comfortable models to work with. To say she enjoyed being naked is to say the least. I don't know if it empowered her or she enjoyed the attention." .

Ratajkowski closes the long document by deciding not to get into a legal entanglement that will drain her of energies, but she continues to act to take control of her life.

Continues to act to take control of her life (Photo: GettyImages)

And this is basically the essence of the whole document - an attempt to shake up the fashion and modeling industry and claim that there is no more room for the perception that models are just a hanger.

A body whose purpose is to display a garment and whose right to image is in the hands of the photographer alone.

Models have a right to their body, just like any other woman - and they also have a right to the figure reflected through the camera.

True, it can be said that it is too much of a pretense to try to change world orders, but we are in an age of change - and maybe we need to start somewhere.

It is important to understand, this is about the interaction between photographers and models.

Love-hate relationships that are manifested mainly in the paparazzi photographers industry.

These need these to make a living, and one cannot without the other.

It can of course be argued that whoever chooses this profession surely knows why she is entering.

After all, this is an industry that promotes beauty and the body is the main thing, but times have changed.

More and more brands, designers and magazines are asking for the face they choose to promote something that will bring with them something that is beyond beauty, added value, it is precisely from this place that the industry of influencers, bloggers and activists expands.

Beauty is not everything.

The fact that this document comes from Emily Ratajkowski may cause quite a few people to raise eyebrows, as this is a woman who promotes the swimwear brand in her design in a variety of bold images and is not just perceived in the industry as the international bikini queen.

But here she does not oppose nudity or its use, on the contrary - in her opinion there is room for nudity, as long as it is under her control.

She opposes taking control of her hands.

And maybe actually, against the fact that again the men in her life want to control.

Maybe if in all these stories a woman was standing behind the camera, things would have ended differently.

It is a discourse on the photographer-model relationship as it is a discourse on the relationship between a man and a woman, in which again the man is in control and the woman accepts his authority.

Emily Ratajkowski is not here to apologize, nor to mourn Mr. Fate, she understands her position in the industry and intends to continue to break the provocative conventions with precise control over the content she produces.

What's for sure - the next photographer to meet her on a set of photos will have to think twice.

and better this way.

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