Miss France 2016: polemic around the bleached photo, the author of the shot reacts

The very clear skin of Alicia Aylies Miss France 2017 on the photo taken for Paris Match had challenged us. The photographer, whom we joined, insisted on re-establishing the “truth” behind the scenes of the shooting.

Images of Paris Match , Miss France appears whiter than the evening of his election, on TF1 last Saturday. The twittosphere has reacted very quickly, once the photo posted by Sylvie Tellier on his account, suspecting him of abusing photographer Photoshop. However, it is not.
Contacted by Gala, Benjamin Decoin, who collaborates regularly with our team, was formal. ” My phone has not stopped ringing today. I am the first one surprised by this controversy, if one can speak of polemic. Obviously, I received no direction. My idea was simply to create a magical atmosphere, with snow on a beach, in the Camargue. I accentuated the light to give a magical atmosphere to the whole. That’s all. Perhaps it was because Alicia had also her hair smoothed, and that it gives her a very different style? I thought more people would question the relevance of putting snow on a beach than the color of Alicia’s skin. The irony is that as it has perfect skin, this is probably one of the pictures that I retouched the least of my career . ”
The subject is sensitive. The color skin of Miss France Guyanaise is a recurring subject on social networks since its coronation. Alicia Aylies has not reacted after the publication of this photo where she appears in red dress on a beach.