“Perfectly Imperfect”By Kamilla Musland

This series embodies the idea of loving ourselves ‘despite’. In today’s society, we are quick to apply Instagram filters, retouching ourselves and others, in order to seem perfect. The idea of perfection is something so many of us seem to be searching for, without really knowing what it is.

I’m taking this opportunity to showcase, and appreciate, the diversity of the female form, in all its shapes and sizes. Highlighting that every body is unique. Could we feel empowered by the characteristics that make us individual, not embarrassed by them? It’s time to start loving our dimples, bumps, wide hips, small breasts, stretch marks and body hair, rather than filtering them away. It is for this reason that I did not retouch any of images. All of these females are real and their beauty is there to behold.

It is my hope that people, especially young females, realise that they can be just as they are. There is no need to compare your body to anyone else’s in order to feel beautiful. As a society, I feel we need to stop mindlessly scrolling through accounts that make us feel inadequate, filling our brains with images of a distorted reality, and start encouraging each other to embrace our bodies in our own care.

The photographs are transferred by hand onto fabric. This process in itself creates an inherently perfectly ‘imperfect’ image.