I believe in your authenticity, your uniqueness, your intensity, your wildness.
I love the way you dye your hair purple, or hike up your short shirt, or blare your music while you lip sync every single memorized lyric.
I love your restlessness and your hungers.
You possess the energy that, if unleashed could transform, inspire and heal the world.
Everyone seems to have a certain way they want you to be, your mother, father, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, boyfriends, fashion gurus, celebrities, girlfriends.
74 percent of young women say they are under pressure to please everyone.
I have done a lot of thinking about what it means to please;
To be the wish or will of somebody other than yourself.
To please the fashion setters, we starve ourselves. To please men, we push ourselves when we aren’t ready. To please our parents, we become insane overachievers. If you are trying to please, how do you take responsibility for your own needs? How do you even know what your own needs are? The act of pleasing makes everything murky.
We lost track of ourselves.
WE stop uttering declaratory sentences.
WE stop directing our lives.
We forget what we know.
WE make everything OK rather than real.
Instead of trying to please, this is a challenge to provoke, to dare, to satisfy your own imagination and appetite.
To take responsibility for who you are, to ENGAGE.
Listen to the voice inside you that might want something different. It’s a call to your original self, to move at your own speed, to walk with your step, to your color.
Eve Ensler.
While flipping through the pages of Glamour I stumbled upon this excerpt from Eve Enslers most recent piece of literary work and immediately fell in love with it.
Emotional Creature.
What does that even mean?
Well, in literal terms it seems easy to define but it really means so much more than that.
Am I an emotional creature, ummm uh yeah.
Are you?
More than likely, whether you'd like to admit it or not.
We are human.
Flawed in every way.
Not only do I think I think Mrs. Ensler's book will resonate with young women everywhere but this article, for me was, one of those "AH Ha!" moments and a perfect introduction into my narrative photo project and the exact reason WHY I chose to tell THIS story.
(side not: I read the article after I did all my shooting...I seriously think fate was behind me finding this)
My story is of transformation.
Why we do it, how it makes us feel, whats lost in between, whats found...
Why, as women we take on roles and stereotypes to fit this mold that has been pre-sculpted for us instead of creating our own.
The series will only include 4 images (although I took around 300) documenting these transformations from frame to frame.
My gorgeous 100% natural friend, Caroline modeled for me which made the shoot so much more personal and fun.
I focused on lighting in every shot and framed each image to serve as a sort of ambiguous self portrait. Some are untouched images while others are still being color corrected.
enjoy.
Till we talk again.
Besamos and remember-
Le Vie Est Belle.
Monica
STILL 1:
STILL 2:
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STILL 4:
(I felt like these photos are most cohesive and work best together in telling such an emotional story in 4 frames)
Here are some others I just mucho mucho liked:)
I will post mas soon!
Love this lighting.
How gorg is she:))
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