Amelia Gale

IMPERFECT PERFECT

This project explores how beauty standards can shape a young woman’s sense of self-worth and identity. It explores how social expectations can encourage people to hide their true selves behind a polished mask. Using studio portraits and photoshop overlay masks, the work creates an illusion of a mask covering the models face representing the lengths we go to in order to transform the way we appear to others. The black and white aspect of the images represent the polished and perfected side the model wants the world to see; the coloured hand overlays act as if the perfected mask is tearing itself away and uncovering a woman’s true colours.

Website Address: https://www.ameliagale.com