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Related: About this forumThis Woman Had Her Face Photoshopped In Over 25 Countries To Examine Global Beauty Standards
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The project, titled Before & After, originally came to Honig while she was working as a social media manager for a small startup. Her boss introduced her to Fiverr, an international freelancing website where anyone can hire freelancers from around the globe to complete almost any task imaginable. While browsing the site, Honig realized the prevalence of those offering Photoshop skills. "It immediately occurred to me that in this pool of workers, each individual likely had an aesthetic preference particular to their own culture," Honig told BuzzFeed. Thus, the idea for Before & After was born.
Working with freelancers in over 25 countries, Honig expected that the images would differ from country to country, but was herself caught off guard by just how drastically some of the images were altered. "Seeing some jobs for the first time made me shriek... Other times images, like the one from Morocco, took my breath away because they were far more insightful than I could have expected," Honig said.
To be sure, the images Honig has collected so far are interesting as individual images, a unique portrait of the standards of beauty in each country. However, when taken in totality, the project becomes much more striking, an interesting launching point into a global conversation about unattainable beauty standards around the world. "What I've learned from this project is this: Photoshop [may] allow 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 illusive."
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ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)Australia and the U.S. were horrid.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)I worked up the photo...
Just getting rid of the zits and the chunks of hair sticking out all over the place helps a lot.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)It's cool to see.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)they did odd things to her head - elongating it in one and shortening it another. The U.S. ones were the worst of the bunch, IMO.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Some of them were truly horrid, including the ones from USA.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)that very few did anything with her clavicles, which I find horrid. I would have expected a lot of the photos to have softened the hard, too thin look. And one that did do something totally wiped them out. Another covered her up so that doesn't count.
Stevenmarc
(4,483 posts)These can't be people who actually do editorial work.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Unfortunately, "professional" and "expert" are not the same thing.