Don't think you're photogenic? Surprise yourself with these tried-and-true techniques
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When Stephanie Yeboah was a teen, she rarely saw her body type in the pages of her favorite fashion magazines. So she avoided cameras at all costs.
As Yeboah grew, so did her confidence. She's now a model and the author of Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically. "I'm always going to be fat," she says. "I might as well use the opportunity while people are looking at me to serve looks."
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To her, that means creating for the camera "angles or poses that are very idiosyncratic, that you would see on the cover of Vogue," she says.
Being photogenic is a skill you can train like any other, says David Suh , a posing coach with over 4.5 million followers on TikTok. The key is to "connect back to your body and let your body language help you communicate."
Suh and Yeboah share poses and movements to help you get comfortable in fr
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