Madison Avenue has worked hard to convince ordinary women that they are not beautiful, and that only Photoshopped anorexic models are worthy of public display. The “Nu Project” [1] set out to photograph ordinary women, in the nude, in a way that displays their natural beauty. I saw this article on Huffpo [2]and just clicked in to see how I would react. Although I didn’t react the same way to each of these photos, I found this project compelling for the reasons stated by the creators:
[Photographer Matt Blum] sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. “The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones.”
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