Shah Rukh Khan's daughter Suhana Khan recently appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine that created a bit of controversy. People on social media slammed the magazine as well as the photographer for "sexualizing a kid". Errikos Andreou, who shot Suhana for the photoshoot, has now opened up on the allegations.
Errikos said that the sexiness that came out from Suhana in the pictures were all "natural", and for him, it was like seeing a "young woman having fun entering adulthood".
"When I saw her, I saw a very beautiful, fresh kid and it was this freshness and innocence that I wanted to capture. But then once she started posing in front of the camera, I realised that this is not a child – this is actually a woman. A young woman who celebrates both her youth and her womanhood. In some pictures, she looks innocent, in some pictures she looks sexy. But the sexiness that comes out is not a forced thing. It was a very natural thing," the renowned photographer told The Quint.
"This is who she is. Yesterday, as I was flicking through twitter I read a comment saying, 'Stop sexualizing kids!' And it had me thinking if that's what we did? As I remember Suhana on that shoot, this came out so naturally. She was just having fun entering her adulthood. And this is what it was all about and this is what I wanted to show," he added.
He also responded to the allegations of the pictures being heavily photoshopped. Errikos termed the negative comments "ridiculous".
"People have been sending me comments about Suhana and how fake she looks. I think they are ridiculous, they don't even know what the original was and what the post was. You've probably seen pictures of her online, because you googled her and because the light falls on them in a specific way," Errikos said.
"I mean don't forget, when we are doing a fashion shoot we are sort of aiming for the best light possible. On the other hand, I'll be honest, when you are photographing with these cameras that are so unforgiving, they grab every single detail. So of course, I am going to retouch the spots and the zits and try to make it more appealing," he added.
Errikos further revealed that Gauri Khan was present at the studio all through the shoot, and even Shah Rukh was seeing his daughter's first ever photoshoot through video call. He also said that he was surprised to see Suhana being so natural in front of the cameras right in her debut shoot.
Apart from allegations of presenting a kid in a sexualised manner, many on social media expressed objection at Suhana being featured on the cover of Vogue. They argued that just being the daughter of SRK and having no achievement of her own, does not make her deserving to appear on the cover of such a big magazine.
