Ricardo is telling her she IS the goddess. She personifies WHAT goddess means. Is it the truth? She should believe it if it’s true. What will it mean if she does accept it? Someone will make a comment to bring her back to reality. Someone will tell her the REAL truth. All those words come flooding back… Fat, ugly, undesirable, unlucky, lazy. All heard at some point in her life whether uttered or simply read in people’s eyes. She has even told herself those things so as to beat others to it. How did she get this way? She was a beautiful baby, a cute girl, a pretty teenager. She went from being a real person to being invisible. From being accepted to being a target.
Marriage, one of life’s milestones. Someone to accept her as she is. She wonders if acceptance is eventually replaced by complacency. Love replaced by habit. No safe haven to which she can run and hide. No rescue from her own demons. Children are her motivation, the cloak with which she surrounds herself. Unconditional love from a child heals many wounds. Self worth for having achieved something so beautiful begins to take hold. Body issues still plague her. Bigger on the outside means smaller on the inside. But never small enough to avoid the pain. Resolutions abound. Diet here, exercise there. She doesn’t long for the skinny body of a model but for inner peace and strength. She must gain self awareness and learn to love herself so that others can reflect that back. She is starting to see all the pieces of the puzzle but lacks the tools with which to solve it.
She is amazed at how empowering the internet is. Providing resources and connections to people from everywhere. Realizing there are women who feel the same way she does. Visiting web sites promoting women’s individuality and inner beauty help her to focus on her goal. The journey she would make over the next three years would be a long but rewarding trek. - Faye
"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.
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