ALESSANDRO CASTELLANI
Natural beauty

Inspired by conversations with female friends I produced a series of portraits of women across the UK, to celebrate their body shapes, and interrogate the pressures placed upon them by our society to adhere to dominant beauty standards. Women in the UK undergo around 25,000 cosmetic surgery procedures every year, according to
the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the most common of which is breast enlargement, with around 7,000 operations carried out yearly. In my portraiture series I confront the idea that women should have to change their looks to feel attractive. Each woman in the series shows herself at her most natural; wearing little to no makeup, her clothes simple and loose-fitting. Each woman faces the camera directly, in a sign of confidence, or perhaps provocation towards the viewer, telling them, “I love my body as it is”.

Website
https://www.alessandrocastellani.co.uk/

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