Beauty is only skin deep isn't that what people say
In my opinion beauty is very complex. I embarked upon a project which forced me to understand true naked beauty, The Goddess Project nudes. I thought to myself was I ready to expose to a camera my naked self? My fears and doubts were quashed immediately once Ricardo Scipio began clicking away.
I kept thinking what if I looked deformed through the lense? Will my scars and marks appear? Ricardo truly made this experience enjoyable. While I undressed with nature surrounding me Ricardo helped me to envision the strength of a Black women through my nakedness, and as I posed and moved for the camera I felt like a Goddess. I relinquished my inhibitions about being naked and embraced my nudity to stand tall with major support from the photographer. I felt up lifted while my pictures were taken. I cupped my breasts with true gratitude for what I have been blessed with and that in it self is true beauty. The Goddess project helped me to revel in the height of my buttock and the flesh that encompassed my bones. I realized; I needn't be a skinny super model to be considered beautiful, what I have is beautiful and The Goddess project, Ricardo is willing to show the world that beauty comes in Black too.
As I lifted my hands to the sky I felt high, I felt like a bird. I truly wanted to fly, I felt good I became so comfortable in my own skin. I felt the crisp air in the bottom of my belly. What made this photo session so beautiful was my unity with nature. I expressed my love of water to Ricardo and in doing so he picked a location surrounded by water, trees and sand which helped me to feel at peace with myself as I have associated water with
serenity for years. Water has always calmed my emotions and helped to clear my mind when I have needed clarity. In one of the shots I begin walking to the water and I really felt like I was coming home, I wanted to dive right into the naked water. As I moved my arms I felt fluid even though the temperature outside was cold my energy gave my body heat. From Uncomfortable, Ricardo brought comfort to me in taking these pictures. I saw beauty in everything that stood beside me that day. The trees, the high bush, the stream of water and the rocks all seemed to enhance my look& as I kneeled into the sand I truly felt like I was being reborn from the earth. By the end of the session I forgot that I was naked I was ready for so much more but the role of film was finished. Ricardo you are wonderful! Your project has allowed me to feel conceded in a good way. I look at my body and I smile because I'am a Goddess, a true reflection of BLACK BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!!
-by Anonymous
"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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