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Original, unaltered photograph of artist. Esther Honig. Moroccan interpretation of beauty.

Esther Honig, a freelance journalist based out of Kansas City, sent an unaltered

photograph of herself to more than 40 Photoshop aficionados around the world.

“Make me beautiful,” she said, hoping to bring t o light how standards of beauty

differ across various cultures.

The project, titled Before & After , originally came to Honig while she was working

as a social media manager for a small startup. Her boss introduced her to Fiverr,

an international freelancing website where anyone can hire freelancers from

around the globe to complete almost any task imaginable. While browsing the

site, Honig realized the prevalence of those offering Photoshop skills. “It 

immediately occurred to me that in this pool of workers, each individual likely

had an aesthetic preference particular to their own culture,” Honig told

BuzzFeed. Thus, the idea for Before & After  was born.

Working with freelancers in over 25 countries, Honig expected that the images

would differ from country to country, but was herself caught off guard by just 

how drastically some of the images were altered. “Seeing some jobs for the first 

time made me shriek… Other times images, like the one from Morocco, took my

breath away because they were far more insightful than I could have expected,”

Honig said.

To be sure, the images Honig has collected so far are interesting as individual

images, a unique portrait of the standards of beauty in each country. However,

when taken in totality, the project becomes much more striking, an interesting

launching point into a global conversation about unattainable beauty standards

around the world. “What I’ve learned from the project is this: Photoshop [may]

allow us to achieve our unobtainable standards of beauty, but when we compare

those standards on a global scale, achieving the ideal remains all the more

illusive.”

Below are the photographs that Honig has collected thus far. Note: Some

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countries have multiple images from different artists. Honig continues her

project on her website.

Argentina

Esther Honig

Australia

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Esther Honig

Bangladesh

 

Esther Honig

Chile

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Esther Honig

Germany

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Esther Honig

Greece

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Esther Honig

India

 

Esther Honig

Indonesia

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Esther Honig

Israel

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Esther Honig

Italy

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Esther Honig

Kenya

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PhilippinesEsther Honig

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Romania

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Serbia

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Sri Lanka

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U.K.

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Ukraine

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USAEsther Honig

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Vietnam

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Venezuela

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Esther Honig

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