PARIS.- Susan Anderson portrays people who
have
become so unreal it is hard to conceive that not the photo but the
person was
edited. Coming from a background of commercial and editorial photography
she
knows how to tell a story within a single frame. Her pictures of the
queens of
child beauty pageants are eerie in their honesty. These pictures where
not
staged, in fact, they are snapshots taken within a 5 minute frame that
the
contest organizers would give her. These children are so conditioned to
strike a
perfect pose every time a lens is aimed at them. While seducing the
camera these
children seem to have aged well beyond their years.