Jul
20
“The issue is that we’ve grown up seeing ourselves as nobody else has, in a mirror. Because of this our image of ourselves, the one that we’re used to (even if we don’t like it), is actually a mirror image of what everybody else sees and what a camera captures. The idea is that, when we look at a picture of ourselves, we pick up on the million little asymmetries that don’t match up with what our brain wants to see, so we dislike the image.”
Why We Hate Seeing Photos of Ourselves
Stephanie Booth is a freelance internet geek who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. Digital Crumble is where she dumps all sorts of interesting stuff she finds online.
