Faced with a society that normalizes beauty and celebrates youth, it’s hard to accept these wrinkles. In admirable Sophie Fontanel is a wonderful novel that questions our fears about aging. However, aren’t wrinkles a reflection of life itself?
It is the image that invalidates the rule. The one who would like wrinkles to have no place in nets. Let the users of Instagram, the temple of flattened images, make them disappear in the form of self-censorship. But in this case, the artistic view means more than a simple illustration. In July, photographer Sophie Ebrard published a photo of one of her projects. We discover three naked female bodies bathed in light. Face to face mother and herself, holding her youngest daughter. “Having never seen an old woman, I first turned to my own mother,” says the photographer in the caption, explaining his approach. I carefully studied her body, then mine and my daughter’s. It is hypnotizing to observe the similarities between them: contours, wrinkles, skin colors, we feel the emotional ties of mother, daughter, grandmother. I hope to show the beauty of a woman’s body as she ages. »
Source: Le Figaro
