It ended up taking me to ten countries and became an exploration of cultural notions of beauty and how they differ and how they're similar in varying cultures around the world. I showed what people do to achieve beauty, or enhance it, or promote it, or exploit it, or fake it ... I photographed everything from an anorexia hospital in Argentina, to a tattoo convention in Pittsburgh to women in China who still have bound feet, to the hill tribes of Papua New Guinea, and the people in the Omo Valley of Ethiopia who are still living as they did in the times of the pharaohs, and practice scarification and the implantation of the big clay lip plates in their lips.
National Geographic staff photographer Jodi Cobb will be speaking next week about her photographic career as well as her series "The Enigma of Beauty" an exploration through 10 countries on six continents to investigate cultural notions of beauty and the science behind attraction. The event is free and passes are available tomorrow (Wed 8/31) at noon and Thursday (9/1) at 9:30 am at this LINK.
Thursday September 8, 2011 6:30-8;00 pm
The Annenberg Space for Photography
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
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