Did you ever thought deeply about what lies behind that overused word, "photogenic"? Is there a native beauty? Is it attitude, or a good photographer? Is it pure aesthetics or expensive photographic equipment? It feels like this river of questions will not stop flowing, ever.
A photogenic subject is, by definition, a subject that makes the photograph. The subject does photo-genesis, creating it without any kind of help. It's been said that models are photogenic. That is because their poses hide unpleasant features while punctuating the most aesthetic ones. But not all postures work well on all models, and there's the photographer's role to choose the angle, frame, lighting and the exact moment of capturing the image.
From my experience, there's no such thing of absolute photogenic model. There can be absolute beautiful subject with no posing knowledge, or paired with the wrong photographer and there can be perfect model-photographer pairs that create beauty together. And the more experienced or gifted they are, the results will be more stunning.
Confucius said "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it". The photographer's duty is to see it, capture it, emphasise it and show it to the world.
