Photographer Michelle Sank’s project exploring young people under 25 in the UK who are challenging their body image, to become more acceptable to their own ideal of ‘beautiful’.
These images are from a project exploring young people under 25 in the UK who are challenging their body image. I am looking at those who have had, or are considering having, cosmetic surgery in order to become more acceptable to themselves and achieve their ideal of being ‘beautiful’. Social consensus in Western society today is particularly focussed on physical beauty and achieving and maintaining the ‘perfect’ face and body. Intertwined with this, I am also documenting body dysmorphia as young people try and conform to this social expectation resulting in eating disorders and body transformation.
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