A young girl grows up assimilating the world around her...taking on various things to compliment who she thinks she is...she wears many hats from other
people's heads ...only to find that they don't really fit her afterall. As she travels along in her journey, she meets many who will hold up the mirror of reflection, casting back to her a part of who she is...(it is not always a pretty picture) but if she is willing to look...I mean REEEEEEEELY look...she can then "see" who it is that she really is, as opposed to who
she thinks she is supposed to be........which is no mere reflection...
Though unfortuneately, that's all many will ever become...a self imposed image of other people's reflection. My heart feels this pang when I see
women/girls wearing the image of another, and you can see that it just does not fit them.. it is an image that is not authentic to their character, their personality, their spirit...it covers up and masks their own innate inner beauty....and they become like a shell... a mere echo of others. This is no little thing, for it then robs them of tapping into their own source of power...abdicating if you will, the realization of their own inner personal knowledge ...leaving it instead up to the approval and criticism of others...which can then lead them into feeling that life indeed can be a cruel and unjust world...unworthy of their contributions in it.
I have often been touched by women who carry this indominable goddess spirit...like a flaming torch, they radiate and give off a glow that is seen, felt, known...this woman knows who she is...and has gone through the fire of experiance to get there... it is powerful...and because it is not dependent on what others may think.. she knows where her source of power truly abides...for she has had to dig down and claim it deep inside herself... created for none other, it is uniquely hers...she has accepted who she is..and walks in the fullness of her own divine authenticity..she then creates her own sense of style, and is attractive no matter what she wears or what she may look like...her fragrance flairs the nostrils of others as thay catch a wiff of her powerful divine scent. The woman who can reveal her own God given inner beauty shines brighter than the most precious of gemstones and radiates like the sun above.She has taught me and shown me, as one who travels before...I have chosen to yolk with this energy...and walk tall and proud of my
woman/goddesshood. I am a warrior goddess, and will fight to protect that which I have purposefully gained...for I too, have walked through the fire,
allowing the flames to burn off that which is false...
-Tracey
"The Goddess Project"- my second book of photography was shot between 2002 and 2010. The book is 8.5x11", 160 pages of full colour. 77 beautiful women of all different shapes, sizes, ages and ethnicities are who make the book truly splendid. Ricardo Scipio Photographer
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Natural Beauty is Powerful and a Gift
Look through my lens and see beauty in a new way. See women in a new way – or maybe the oldest way possible: as goddesses.
The Goddess Project is book of nude photographs of brave, beautiful women who rejoice in being themselves regardless of size, age, height - regardless of anything. It’s not about what you look like, it’s not even about what you don’t look like, it’s all about how you feel about yourself…and how you feel about life itself.
That’s what my book is about. It’s the way I see and photograph women: as goddesses. It’s what I want for every woman and for the world.
And this book isn’t just a book: it’s a mission. It’s a manifesto. It’s a beauty revolution, and the antidote to mainstream media’s impoverished and interchangeable images of female beauty.
I used to be part of that media. For ten years, I worked in New York and Toronto as a fashion photographer – and my work demanded that I promote and support a view of beauty and sexuality I never personally believed in. Super-thin teenagers with under-developed bodies and barely in touch with their own nascent womanhood were as far away from my personal version of female beauty as one can imagine. During that time, I grew a career – but I lost more than I gained.
And so I left the industry to start a revolution in pictures.
From 2002-2010, I was on a mission. I photographed 77 incredible women and trust me, it was a momentous task to select 160 of my favourite, most compelling images from thousands and thousand of pictures. These women are goddesses of all kinds: black, brown, white, young, old, thin, fat, small, tall. Some are earth mothers, others are warriors, protectors or sex-goddesses.
This book is an offering to the goddesses. It’s an offering to you, and to the goddess in you. May it help you see it, feel it, live it.
ricardo scipio
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