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What Happened When A Biracial Woman Was Photoshopped In 18 Different Countries
What makes someone "beautiful"? It's a difficult question to answer, as we learned earlier this year from journalist Esther Honig's Photoshop experiment, in which she sent a picture of herself to photo editors in 25 countries around the wor...
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What the hell was the artist from Montenegro thinking? Is there even an original portion of the photo left? Damn...
That's the point.
I guess I hoped by photoshopping there would still be some resemblance left. But yeah, I guess thats the point.
The thing is they try to photoshop the same woman into a near perfect woman according to popular view of the country, which could change for a number of reasons, and I guess Montenegro's is just not at all like the original woman, but the resemblance isn't the point of it, it's the difference, and that's what makes it interesting. I still think Algeria's is weird. Looks like an OS X wallpaper, but I guess the Algerian artist's perception of a perfect woman would be a goddess.
I didn't even notice the Montenegro photoshop (had to go back and take a second look), just scrolled over it thinking it was some ad. I stand corrected, that is now the weirdest one out of them all. But yeah, its crazy how much each image differs due to the geo location of the artist.