Photos are just some pseudo-reality version of who we think we are, even without filters. You choose the angle, the lighting, whatever, all with a specific goal

Photos are just some pseudo-reality version of who we think we are, even without filters. You choose the angle, the lighting, whatever, all with a specific goal in representing yourself. Oh, you also add choosing the clothes, the hair style and your posture/facial expression to the mix. It (the genre of image we're talking about)'s all unnatural and meant to portray people in a light somebody wants to portray them in. In fact that's most of "photography" is.