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Esther Honig Photoshop By 25 Countries
Esther Honig photoshop by 25 countries to make her beautiful
before & after of chile
PROJECT BEFORE AND AFTER:
In the U.S. Photoshop has become a symbol of our society’s unobtainable standards for beauty. My project, Before & After, examines how these standards vary across cultures on a global level.
Freelancing platforms, like Fiverr, have allowed me to contract nearly 40 individuals, from more than 25 countries such as Sri Lanka, Ukraine, The Philippines, and Kenya. Some are experts in their field, others are purely amateur.
With a cost ranging from five to thirty dollars, and the hope that each designer will pull from their personal and cultural constructs of beauty to enhance my unaltered image, all I request is that they ‘make me beautiful’.
Below is a selection from the resulting images thus far. They are intriguing and insightful in their own right; each one is a reflection of both the personal and cultural concepts of beauty that pertain to their creator.
Photoshop allows us to achieve our unobtainable standards of beauty, but when we compare those standards on a global scale, achieving the ideal remains all the more elusive.
before & after of morocco
before & after of argentina
before & after of united states of america
before & after of indonesia
before & after of kenya
before & after of pakistan
ABOUT ESTHER HONIG
” I’m a human interest reporter who works in both broadcast and print mediums. I’m a blogger, bilingual (Spanish & English) and a social media enthusiast.
I’m determined to document my life, my memories and the small fleeting and wonderful stories happening all around me.
In my work I enjoy the opportunity to hold intimate conversations and to know a diversity of people and characters. I aim to position the bigger, more complex stories through the tiny lens of a single individual.
I love that being a reporter means I tread ground that I have no reason being on otherwise, like climbing the worlds tallest waterslide or spending the day on a turkey farm. I am an adventurer and an avid questioner. My mom often tells me that sometimes I’m too brave.” – Esther Honig