No matter the age, religion or race, every women around the world is concerned about her looks. She constantly asks herself: Is she beautiful? The question we all need to ask instead is: What is beauty?
Small waistline, big round breasts and behind, slender arms and strong long legs is the norm most women are aiming for. However, just like every country has its unique traditions and customs, it also has its unique beauty standard. Trying to fulfill everyone’s expectations of beauty is somewhat impossible and meaningless.
What we fail to comprehend is that we are all beautiful and every women is beautiful in her own special way. Today’s society thanks to media and marketing may have pushed the norms of beauty, making us feel ugly unless we have the skin and body of a super model. It is time to feel beautiful just the way we are.
Photographer Mihaela Noroc has traveled the world, visiting over 37 countries and photographing ordinary women at her every stop. Her Atlas of Beauty shows just how different women are and each of them are beautiful in their own way. Her ever growing project is an attempt to make us accept yourselves and the diversity of beauty around us.
Take a look at the 27 different types of beauty Noroc captured in these women.
Tibetan Plateau, China
Sydney, Australia
Shiraz, Iran
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
5. Myanmar, Yangon
San Francisco, USA
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Peru
New Zealand
Colca Valley, Peru
Cuenca, Ecuador
Amazon Jungle, Ecuador
Baltic Sea, Finland
El Paico, Chile
Bogota, Colombia
Havana, Cuba
Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Nasir al Mulk, Iran
Little India, Singapore
Maramures, Romania
Medellin, Colombia
Ecuador
New York, USA
Cali, Colombia
Latvia
Shiraz, Iran
Medellin, Colombia
All you have to do is embrace yourself, be confident and no matter how you look, your inner beauty will shine on the surface.
