For the freaking love of Pizza, can anyone but me say they have never taken a horrid picture.??
Photographers professional ones, that is, know darn well what side of the face to photograph. What lighting to use and how to make lightening and angle either make anyone look good or horrid. They can add age to a person, 20 years or deduct 20 years off their person.
This is why they are in the profession, they can make or break anyone they photo, this is an ART Form.
A simple 10 % slant of he head to left or right makes all the difference in the world.
Poor people in the public eye are photographed every day, how the photos are published is up to the photographer and their Editor.
Any two photographers taking pictures on any one person can come up with pictures totally different taken at the same time.
I have seen some wonderful pictures of our first lady, very glamorous, then the pictures that place her in a bad light, Get a life my friend, check out your family albumin's and tell me I am wrong.