Date: 12 February 2012
Tagged as: sun. lene. solvang. photo. photography. body image. nude.
Body Image is a project where I go home to people, either friends or strangers, and they undress as much as they’re comfortable with and expose what they want of both themselves and their home. And once the photograph is taken my models write a text about their own body image.
This project for me is honest and real, it is without any photoshopping, it’s just me portraying real people just the way they are. I hope people will take the time to read the text the model has provided and that this project will affect someone out there.
“What is a perfect body for me?
Either you have learned to love those faults you have, or you have done something about them.
A perfect body for me doesn’t have a certain weight, it doesn’t have a certain height.
Color, shape and everything else that follows with having a body.
This is irrelevant. It’s the attitude that counts.
And the right attitude and how you hold yourself, it depends on how you feel about yourself and your body.
You can have a amazing body, but if you don’t think it’s amazing yourself you will try to hide it.
And by hiding it from others you’re hiding it from yourself too.
It’s hard to improve a body you don’t know.
A body you don’t really can relate to.
A body that you really hate.
You get up every morning look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that you’re ugly.
Then you will stop believing.
But if you get up and tell yourself that you’re an amazing person it will boost your self-confidence.
And slowly it will do something about the bad relationship you have with your body.
If it’s to train more or less, eat healthier, get enough sleep, stop smoking, drink less alcohol, drink more water or just to accept that this is how your body is.
And that you can be happy with.
Nobody can tell you that you’re wrong.
But because of ideal bodies and a twisted vision on what’s normal and pretty, a lot of people will tell you something different then what you mean.
Some will not care about comment while others will suck it up and not stop thinking about it.
And perhaps in the end believe in those very words.
No one is alike. “
