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Original, unaltered photograph of artist. Esther Honig. Moroccan interpretation of beauty.
Esther Honig, a freelance journalist based out of Kansas City, sent an unaltered
photograph of herself to more than 40 Photoshop aficionados around the world.
Make me beautiful, she said, hoping to bring to light how standards of beauty
differ across various cultures.
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 Ive learned from the 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.
Below are the photographs that Honig has collected thus far. Note: Some
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countries have multiple images from different artists. Honig continues her
project on her website.
Argentina
Esther Honig
Australia
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Bangladesh

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Chile
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Esther Honig
Germany
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Greece
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Esther Honig
India

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Indonesia
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Israel
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Esther Honig
Italy
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Esther Honig
Kenya
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Esther Honig
Morocco
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Esther Honig
Pakistan
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Philippines
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Romania
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Serbia
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Sri Lanka
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Esther Honig
U.K.
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Esther Honig
Ukraine
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USA
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Vietnam
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Venezuela
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