Exhibition · 2014
Real Women — 30+1 Portraits of Natural Beauty
Stefánia Palace, Budapest
In my own words
This was my first real statement, and I still stand by every word of it. Thirty-one women, no retouching, no tricks, no digital surgery. I wanted to show that a face doesn't need correcting to be beautiful — that the line beside someone's eye is not a flaw but a receipt for a life actually lived.
Back then this was almost provocative. Everyone was smoothing skin into plastic. I turned the lights down, sat closer, and waited for the moment the mask came off. Looking back, everything I've done since about women, identity and honesty began right there, in the Stefánia Palace.
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