NEW MOTHERS IN THE NUDE: THE BEAUTY OF THE BODY OF POST-NATAL WOMEN WITHOUT RETOUCHING

Photographer Jade Beall has recently become famous around the world thanks to an artistic work that has the female body as the protagonist after pregnancy. The woman has always believed in an ideal of beauty that does not conform to traditional canons and her works have always pushed in this direction, faces as they were to capture naturalness and spontaneity. After giving birth, Jade published a her shot that portrayed her semi-naked without any retouching or photoshop intervention and the move was appreciated by many women, who asked the photographer to be able to be portrayed in the same way, to show the signs that a wonderful event like pregnancy had left on their bodies.
The initiative, born a little by chance, has become a real artistic project called A Beautiful Body, with which Beall has tried to redefine the concept of beauty, releasing it from the idea of perfection, and which she hopes soon to be able to transform into a real book. Jade, in a recent interview, said: "I just want that women understand how strong and beautiful they are and feel self-confident and irreplaceable ". This is the message that the woman wants to spread through her work, trying to change the standard of beauty traditionally understood by today's society which favors the illusion in favor of an idea linked to the authenticity and reality of ordinary women.

The women portrayed by the photographer are in fact a hymn to naturalness and normality: in the images stretch marks, scars, soft shapes are not perceived with embarrassment and shame but are finally seen as the signs of a woman who has grown her life inside herself, becoming synonymous with beauty and love.

Here are some of the shots taken by the photographer that portray female bodies with the signs of pregnancy together with the children they gave birth to.