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Simone Day-Swann

​Cellphie: The Art of Deception

This work examines the use of the digital filters and editing tools associated with social media platforms like Instagram, to question how perceptions of beauty and ‘truth’ are affected. By using means of manipulation and deception, I have digitally edited these portraits to reflect on this contemporary culture, to consider whether these tools are promoting unrealistic and unobtainable beauty standards and a distorted sense of reality.

When you look back on photographs of your life, do you want t

to see yourself or a digitally altered version?

  • Instagram
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