BODY, 2014.

 

How I learned to accept my body.

most of you might know this problem of looking down onto your body and feeling extremely miserable about how you look like. as for myself I was always struggling about body issues, since I was a kid. I grew up with people saying don't hate your body, you're super thin! yes, I am pretty thin, and that's exactly what caused my problems. all my life I have been underweight and it's kind of impossible to change that aspect of my life.

this modern society has brainwashed us all. we're only getting accepted by this society when we're healthy and thin. as for men, they need to have the perfect body, such as six packs and for women they are only beautiful when they are fully breasted and thin. it's pretty impossible to overcome this feeling of being unworthy, just because you hate your body, or you don't have the ideal of a body.
it took me ages to realize that this is all just a big lie we're living in. we're all different human beings, and we're all individual by our outta appearance and personality.
I say this, because I, myself, hated my body. every time I looked into a mirror I felt disgusted by myself, and I still feel this way sometimes. but on the other hand, throughout all these years, I've started to just accept the way I look, because I can't change the way I look. and the most important thing is, that I don't even want to change it. we shouldn't change because this society and body ideal told us to. you don't commit a crime when you're not in shape, thin of thick, that doesn't even matter anymore. 

 so, if you're unhappy with your body shape, there are just two options you have. try to accept it, or try to change it. I accepted my body and it made me happier. it truly did, because I'm just not worrying about it anymore and I just don't want to change for anybody else, because we live for ourselves and not for other people. if someone goes up to you and say hey you're out of shape, then just fuck them. nobody has to argue about how you look like and it's nobody's business to tell you how you should look like.

I created this series to show how different we all are and how important it is to see that we are all beautiful.
for me, it was the most difficult task ever, to find people modeling for me and to put into words what I was trying to show with these photos. it is also the series I was working on for a long time and that's why I am super grateful to finally share these bits with you guys.
I'm also very glad to have had such wonderful people who were willing to model for me and I want to shout out a huge thank you to all of you! (models remain anonymous). I will also try to keep this series going and find more people to participate!