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While working on my portrait series, I wanted to explore society’s perception of “ideal beauty.” To initiate this, I conducted an image keyword search using words like “beautiful, charming, attractive, pretty, etc.” and discovered that many of the resulting images had undergone significant editing. Most of the images I found commonly had models being portrayed without a smile, and looking directly into the camera. I found a model that had several versions of her smiling but one of the many images stood out to me as being unexpected and somewhat tense.

In this image, I wanted to contrast modern ideals of beauty with more traditional ones by highlighting the natural textures and intricacies of the skin, moving beyond the polished, airbrushed look often associated with social media influencers and their curated feeds.