London-based photographer, filmmaker, and artist Ben Hopper has caused quite a stir with his project, titled Natural Beauty. Challenging female beauty standards, the photo series aims to find out why women with body hair are labeled as 'unsexy.'
"I don’t recall when body issues became mainstream in my mind but I have early memories around age 11-12 where they started to take over my self-worth," she told Bored Panda. "I did my first diet at age 14, and it would continue off and on through 'til adulthood."
Josef Adamu created the photo series 'The Hair Appointment' to encourage young Black girls to feel beautiful.
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I’m a photographer from Romania that quit her job and started a new life. Two years ago I took my backpack, my camera and begun to travel around the globe, photographing hundreds of natural women surrounded by their culture.
In case you didn't know how shaving legs and armpits for women became a norm, you can blame the relentless advertising campaigns. At the beginning of the 20th century, women, and of course society in general, couldn't care less about the natural hair growing on their bodies. However, after sleeveless dresses came into fashion, advertisers began targeting women's hairy armpits, encouraging women to remove them. Then followed leg hair. By the 1950s, after what seemed to be merely a fad created by annoying advertisers, shaving your hairy legs and armpits became a social norm lasting for decades.
Mother-of-two Sara Eisenman, from Sedona, Arizona, said her hair started to turn silver when she was just 21 years of age in what seemed like 'overnight'.
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Elisabeth Van Aalderen had a lot going for her. After getting her diploma from the Utrecht School of Arts, she applied to the photography department of the Fotovakschool in Amsterdam. Since then, she has worked in the fashion industry as a stylist and art director but eventually quit her job to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional photographer. However, about 8 years ago, when she was 25, something came up that tried to slow Elisabeth down. Vitiligo. A skin condition in which a lack of melanin leads to developing white patches on the skin.
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