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The first time a woman has revealed completely her nudity is the day of her birth. She is just a baby, a new human being in this world nothing else. The last time a woman has forgotten her nudity is the day she had the chance to give birth to her daughter. She becomes just a sanctuary of life. Between these moments of life, this woman and her daughter will cope with society’s points of view regarding their bodies. Bodies, which will be modified, criticized, disrespected, admired, loved or made a mere sexual object, so far from the purity of day one. Through these shots, I wanted to show that the first thing we all had on the day of our birth is not something wrong, dirty or shocking, but just the first natural element which defines our existence. If a woman can give birth to a child already dressed with trendy clothes, SM suits or a religious uniform, please forget everything I have written before and burn my pics! Unfortunately, you and I live in a world where it is so easy to transform something natural into something wrong, dirty and shocking because it is so difficult to think "IT’S JUST A BODY". Through the camera, I am telling you - "Yes, I can be sexy. Yes you can hate me or like me. Yes you can have pleasure by looking at me or not", but at the end it's just my body and I. Since day one, it’s just my body who has been growing up with me and will die too. Look! She is not so different than yours, your mother’s, sister’s, girlfriend’s or wife’s one. I loved participating in this project. I had the opportunity to express something I would love to see more and more in magazines, nudity’s emotion. I am tired of seeing ‘fast and furious’ nudity in yellow newspapers or other media. I am aware of taking risks and that someone can decide to put an end to my life because my nudity is an offence for her or him. That it can be a reason to fire me or to spit at me because of a decision I chose to take years ago. If this happens, it will mean that for them my body and I are not one but two different features: a woman and a piece of flesh exposed to their judgement, as the moral requires. It will mean for them that my nudity defines my feelings, my mind, and my soul. But I was born as a human being and I will die as such. By shooting myself, I won't say - "Look, I am free, I am independent, I am beautiful, I am modern and yes, respect me!" No, my message to you is: "Whether you feel at ease with your own nudity or not; even though we live in a world where nudity refers to the word sex most of the time; despite the lack of respect for women who expose their nudity, not one of you will ever become less of a human being than the day of your birth for taking part. A woman naked in a picture is not just a glamorous representation of a body. She is human".
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