I would like it to help people reconsider how they think and feel about their bodies and those of the women in their lives.” I hope that Bare Reality can help transform other people. I have photographed 100 women and I know there is no such thing as ‘perfection’ - I like my breasts more. “I have always liked women, but now I feel so tender about the female experience, and I like myself more as a woman. “Bare Reality has completely transformed me,” Laura went on. What do women think about growing up? What do women think about sex? How do women feel about motherhood? Breastfeeding? What is our experience of health, body image, ageing? It is clear to me that Bare Reality was a search to find out what it means to be a woman.
“I felt compelled to look past the cultural mirror which had so long encircled me. “I became fascinated with the dichotomy between how breasts are presented for public consumption versus how we feel about them privately,” Laura told me. More: 12 Things all women with small boobs understand No better, no worse than any of the others.
I can imagine my own breasts slotted into the grid. But it’s very rare to be faced with 100 topless women and given the opportunity to see exactly how different breasts can be. Of course I know - we all do - that all breasts are different.
