For hundreds of years our concept of beauty has been inextricably linked to a certain degree of pain and ugly truth that lies beneath the surface: From bound feet to corsets to the modern day bikini wax. Is there no other alternative to maintaining and achieving the ideal beauty?
Enduring Beauty is an ongoing project that documents just some of the treatments women undergo to maintain and achieve a certain beauty, I have purposefully not revealed my subject’s faces in full, as the genuine pain and discomfort they tolerate for the sake of achieving enduring beauty could just as easily be mine….. Or yours.