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Portraits of Beauty and Perfection: The issue for any modern day photographer is that the type of perfection required by their job is nearly always an impossibility without using technology to manipulate the photographs.
The process used to create the raw content in Pretty Little Masks is, by now, nearly an industry standard technique which involves creating a “masking” layer in Photoshop and manually drawing on this layer to soften facial features. This technique helps remove unsightly lines and blemishes, creating the "perfect" skin.
These images contain the "masking" layer alone, in effect showing only what has been made 'perfect' about these models. Insofar as our society deems it today, Pretty Little Masks are portraits of beauty and perfection.
In the simplest of terms, Pretty Little Masks exposes the raw, eerie, and sometimes unsightly reality of our obsession with perfection.
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