ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN, USA
USA: MY DREAM OF FAME
A small town in Massachusetts, USA: although she’s only eleven years old, Emily D. already looks alarmingly tired and disillusioned. Emily is one of millions of girls in the USA who have already succumbed to the temptations of the beauty industry.
Or could it be that it’s not the girls but their ambitious parents? Families such as Emily’s pay 1,500 Dollar or more in participation fees for beauty pageants, for makeup, hair styling, false eyelashes, etc. so that their daughters get a chance to become famous. And that the parents get that chance, too. From the trailer park to the spotlight – that’s what they hope for. And in doing so, many girls show off a body they haven’t even grown into yet.

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Photographer Ilana Panich-Linsman, born in 1984, lives in Austin, Texas. Among other topics, she focusses on the everyday life of groups on the margins of the American society. And on the stolen childhood of their children.
Curriculum Vitae: Ilana Panich-Linsman (Keystone Agency)
