Nadia is an American Photographer and Film-maker, her work is unlike any I have ever seen. Pulling from a culture and style reminiscent of the 1960’s-1970’s, she displaces the female model into a world of perfected, polished satire. She distorts the reality of societal pressures and beauty standards to their extreme counterpart with the use of makeup and props; extremely long nails, dark tan, huge wigs, extravagant makeup, masks and even a third breast to portray the extreme eventuality of where a path based solely on the beauty of appearances will lead us.
Her use of lighting is really unique and adds a blinded-by-the-sun feel to all of her work. The gloss/oil of the skin and perfectly composed imperfections of her subjects is intrusive and irreverent in nature; A discomfort we all need to feel.
“In response to homogenous ideals of beauty I wanted to create a satirical world in which the female inhabitants have pushed their appearances into cartoonish, melodramatic and extreme representations of femininity; yet are still looking to improve themselves even further.”
Nadia’s work fights against the beauty industries endless campaign with style, a great sense of humour and a genuinely diverse reality of what a woman is. Nude but not an object, displayed with personality and human-ness.
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