Estée Lauder Pink Ribbon Photo Award 2022 - Finalist

This image is part of my passion project, I AM, which turned into a book entitled I AM, celebrating the imperfect perfect. I photographed 121 women, ranging in age from 40 to 99, in their most natural beauty, in their nakedness, which to me represents the truest image of a woman’s body and soul. My goal was to reveal the unretouched beauty of each woman in all her diversity, authenticity, inclusion, to help her love herself and to try to halt all self-criticism and judgment.

I love all these images and all these women, but I felt like choosing Barbara for the Pink Ribbon Award. She is for me the embodiment of a strong woman who decided long ago that she was more than her body and who fully accepts the mastectomy and her scars that saved her life, which she enjoys to the fullest at her age.

The light in her eyes tells the story. She is simply beautiful simple inside and out.