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Childbirth and stretch marks, the project that portrays new mothers. Comments: "Photo disgusting"
Elisa Murgese | March 22, 2015
Jade Beall - creator of A Beautiful Body Project - wanted to capture the signs of pregnancy, but many online users have spoken with offensive judgments. "Nudity is well accepted by all if a body is made perfect with the use of photoshop"
Elisa Murgese | March 22, 2015
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Not enough users who for months have reported his photos to Facebook as "inappropriate". Now under his shots users of social networks write: "Take those images disgusting". Subjects of the photos, naked women while they are breast-feeding or showing how their body is changed after delivery. Photo receiving insults and reports on the social network, so as to force the American photographer Jade Beall - creator of A Beautiful Body Project - to censor pixelando breasts and a few weeks to remove offensive judgments on the body of the new mothers.
Hard to say whether the injuries come more from men or women, it is certain that "the criticism comes from those who do not believe that beauty can be found in scars, wrinkles, stretch marks, skin spots, fat, acne, or any other physical imperfection" , tells ilfattoquotidiano.it Kristen Watts, moderator of the Facebook page of the photographer of Arizona. Mothers with babies breast or naked women with signs of childbirth on the skin insulted because according to the users online "are not worthy to be called beautiful or to be displayed on the internet - Continuous Watts - As if a body is made perfect with 'use of photoshop, then nudity is well accepted by everyone. "
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The project started in 2012, when Beall is greased 22 pounds during pregnancy. "After the birth of my son I was getting depressed because I felt horrible and confused - tells the 35-year old photographer on his website - I dragged in my studio and I started photographing my body now changed." Posted these photos on the web, Beall was flooded with emails of new mothers eager to pose for her. "In many - continues the photographer - believed to have a body unattractive and ruined." Hence the decision to withdraw tired from pregnancy, with scars and stretch marks, right next to their children, "to show them in all their real beauty."
The shots, collected in 2014 thanks to a crowdfunding platform in the book "The bodies of mothers", were just the beginning. Second step, in fact, was the birth of an online platform where Beall collaborates with other photographers to portray women from all over the world, "nude after delivery, before giving birth, while the body ages, is sick, fat, thin, smooth, hairy, "says Watts. On the site "A beautiful body project" you would suggest stories or photo shoots, or send self-portraits.
Launched on Facebook, it was this project to attract comments "disgusted" by some users. "We decided not to respond to provocations - Continuous Watts - Every day we struggle against the fact that social networks our pictures are deleted because they deemed offensive. Some do not understand the why of our work, we can not do anything. " According to Watts is much more common than you think that a woman is ashamed of their bodies after giving birth. "Comments such as those who are receiving not help new mothers to celebrate their beauty - concludes Watts - while our shots just want to understand the magnitude of the female body."
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