This Is BEAUTIFUL!

This is Beautiful aims to create a dialogue about womens bodies, and the lack of realistic images of women in media, a critical factor in the rise of eating disorders and distorted body image.

(PRWEB) July 21, 2004 -- Seattle photographer Amanda Koster and The CEDRIC Centre are putting out a call for women on Vancouver Island of all ages, shapes, sizes, colors, and abilities to participate in This is Beautiful, a photo shoot and video interview, August 21st & 22nd.

Participants in the Victoria shoot will pose in the nude and take part in interviews, as part of a documentary and book on the project. Koster will return to Victoria in the New Year, and re-team with The Centre to exhibit the photos for the general public at a gallery space in Victoria.

Koster, a professional photographer, started This is Beautiful in 2001, I work in the media and wanted to contribute with images that I think are beautiful, in addition to those that are already out there. I want to show the beauty in every body."

This is Beautiful aims to create a dialogue about womens bodies, and the lack of realistic images of women in media, a critical factor in the rise of eating disorders and distorted body image.    

Michelle Morand, director and founder of The CEDRIC Centre, an eating disorder counselling centre, says, Women of all ages are under incredible pressure to strive towards an arbitrary physical ideal, and its up to all of us to counter those messages with positive images that celebrate all women as beautiful."

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