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This Is What Beauty Looks Like Around the World

Photographer Mihaela Noroc's "The Atlas of Beauty" is the best portrait of diversity we've ever seen
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Australia
"[This woman] is a wonderful artist from Australia, and a beautiful mother."

Image via Mihaela Noroc

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Havana, Cuba
"With The Atlas of Beauty I want to cover totally different places in the world. [In the fall] I was photographing in tropical Cuba. [A few months later] I was exploring the villages of northern Romania, where temperatures were about 35 degrees cooler. This is Claudia."

Image via Mihaela Noroc

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Iran
"There are two ways in which I take photos for 'The Atlas of Beauty.' Sometimes I find an interesting face and we plan a short photo shoot in a place that is relevant to the community and the person. Other times, I simply stop them in the street, I ask them about what they do, and I take one or two photos on the spot."

Image via Mihaela Noroc

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Singapore
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But the beholder is always somebody different. That's why I think beauty is diversity."

Image via Mihaela Noroc

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Arequipa, Peru
"In my opinion, beauty means keeping your origins and your culture alive. To be natural, sincere, authentic, particular, not necessarily in fashion."

Image via Mihaela Noroc

BY AMANDA MONTELL | MAR 16, 2015 | SHARES
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