Even if you’ve never seen the film, you’ll be aware of the image: Mena Suvari floating naked among a sea of red rose petals.
A photographer has taken that Hollywood portrayal of beauty, dreamt up by Kevin Spacey’s creepy middle-aged character and creepier middle-aged movie execs, and recreated it using 14 women of different shapes and sizes to show that beauty doesn’t just come in one idealised package.
‘Almost every image you see in mainstream media is of one type of woman, thin white women to be specific,’ San Francisco-based photographer Carey Fruth told Huff Post.
Which leaves a lot of women feeling as… Read the full story