An open letter from TENTACIONES to Lena Dunham

Dear Lena,

As you know, we have dedicated the front cover of our March issue to you. Our intention was to celebrate the success of your show Girls and reflect the impact that you have had as an artist and activist in a number of social and political causes. However, this morning we awoke to find your displeasure:

Of course, we are aware that any media outlet needs to be responsible for what it publishes, but this photo was previously approved by the agency, the photographer and your publicist. For the front cover of the magazine we used an image from the shoot you did in 2013 with the photographer Ruven Afanador, and which was published at the time by Entertainment Weekly. Here at TENTACIONES, we acquired the photo via the Corbis agency, and we used the original that they sent us without applying any kind of retouching. Those who are familiar with and follow our magazine will know that we do not use Photoshop nor other digital tools to change the physical appearance of our cover stars, nor in the features to be found inside. On this occasion, the only thing we did was to crop the image to adapt it to the format of our front page.

Here you can see the original photo that was shared at the time by the photographer Ruven Afanador on his Facebook page, and below, the cover of TENTACIONES. As you can see, the image is exactly the same.

We are delighted to see that you still have your rebellious spirit. Let us have your address and we’ll send you our magazine as a courtesy every month, so that you can see for yourself that we like to reflect things the way that they really are.

With all of our affection,

TENTACIONES