VOGUE BRAZIL IS under fire for a ‘Paralympic’ photoshoot that doesn’t actually contain any actual Paralympians.
The people you see in the picture below are able-bodied Brazilian actors who have been Photoshopped to make it seem as though they are amputees.
The actors, Cleo Pires and Paulo Vilhena, are ambassadors of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee – the photoshoot is part of a campaign to “raise visibility” of the Games, which begin on September 7.
Two Paralympians, Renato Leite and Bruninha Alexandre, provided the inspiration for the actors’ ‘disabilities’ and oversaw the photoshoot.
While the intention to raise visibility seems to be genuine, people are wondering why the athletes themselves weren’t featured in the campaign.
Richard Lane of the disability charity Scope told the Huffington Post that the decision is “hard to understand”:
The magazine has missed the perfect opportunity to celebrate Brazil’s talented Paralympians as sporting equals… The Paralympics is a time to challenge negative attitudes to disability.
Vogue Brazil are standing by their choices despite the backlash, telling Huffington Post that the campaign was created by the actors and the publicity agency Agencia Africa:
Vogue respects the opinions of readers who disagreed with the campaign format but reiterates its commitment to promote the importance of the Paralympic games.
Written by Valerie Loftus and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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Some tossers on Twitter have a spasm attack so you regurgitate their tweets and roll it off as an article that’s supposed to challenge the mind of your readers.
It’s a Daily Edge article. .
Oh,Suzie I didn’t realise..few disabled jokes coming your way.
It came up as 42 article on my feed. I’ll leave the jokes off. Couldn’t be bothered.
It’s so bad, the author didn’t put her name to it.
It’s always the same old story,throw out some rubbish article and hide behind the office desk drinking green tea while munching on 4 star pizza forgetting the the years they did in college as Journalism.
“It came up as 42 article on my feed.”
You go to the Sports section to have your mind ‘challenged’?
luke it is unfortunate that reading this website is compulsory, if only you could take your page views elsewhere
It’s a glossy mag for superficial people who like to look at other superficial people absed on their ideals of beauty. So what if it’s photoshopped? unless there are some beautiful looking Paralympians who were prepared to do the shoot, and no the two pictured above two don’t qualify for the Vogue the beauty Olympics, then why not photoshop?
As for that guy’s tweet “Vogue Brazil photoshopping able bodied models…because Paralympian’s just don’t look good enough?!”
Yes, exactly. So what?
its bloody stupid
So what? Well that’s a lovely sentiment Undie. As a mother to a handsome little boy born with limb differences, your comment is very disheartening.
Children born / living with limb differences have very few role models / public figures to look up to – especially in a society where there is an increasing focus on the need to ‘look perfect’. This could have been an opportunity to celebrate real Paralympic athletes and show a different perspective on what beauty is / means rather than photoshopping disabilities on pretty people.
Yes such a crime. Is this really news.
Who cares!
questions are usually marked by the use of ‘?’, rather than ‘!’
How many days is the Olympics on ? That’s a question
I’d give my right arm to be in a photo shoot.
I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
I wouldn’t mind getting into some hot water with Vogue
I’m never reading Brazilian Vogue again.
Mmmm, a magazine full of Brazilians.
So they photo shopped in the imperfections and they are in trouble. Wouldn’t it be worse if they used real paralympians and photo shopped the imperfections out?
Wouldn’t it just be better to use Paralympic athletes?
It’s a bit obvious innit?
No, how is it obvious? Is it not an Olympic competition? How would they pick two competitors over all of them without favouritism? Maybe a group picture. Such fakery though!
it is possible to choose between options without favouritism.
But sure who reads vogue anyway but emptyheaded fakes? Where’s the problem?
I like colouring in the pictures
They should have used the Roy Trenneman defence – just assume a ‘helpless’ pose on the ground and squeal “I’m disaaabled!” in a high-pitched voice.
Disgraceful. I’m cancelling subscription to Vogue Brazil and I hope others follow suit.
And miss out on all those “10 ways to please your man in bed” articles ?
Cleo Pires is some babe though
1,2,3 let’s all get offended next week it will be something else !
Let’s be honest…. If they did the same thing and called it some kind of statement piece about equality and diversity and made a big deal about showcasing it aka Caitlyn Jenner the Uber left wing, social justice warriors would be in love with Vogue right now…
Isn’t the whole point of acting that you pretend to be somebody who you’re not? Unless maybe if you’re in a reality show, in which case you pretend to be yourself.
I thought it was Vogue Williams they were referring to.
When the only thing that matters is looks??? What does that say about society?
Who. Gives. A. Fcuk.
the charity for people with disabilities, Scope
This is brilliant, that smelly yoke gets air time and then she does this. Lollollollililik