I AM BEAUTIFUL
Who determines beauty? Plastic Surgeons? Pharma companies, social media, and advertising? Cosmopolitan Magazine? What happens to the human psyche when we start to believe all noise? Depression, self-abuse, suicide. It is time we protect our mental health and move forward. I AM BEAUTIFUL. This project is about self love, empowerment, and the beauty of humankind. I have photographed 230 portraits of people from different genders, identities, lifestyles, and communities to reshape the narrative of curated beauty standards in society to be inclusive of all beauty from all people.
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Biography
As a young teen, Sandro embraced the idea of making photographic portraits after seeing the portrait imagery of Irving Penn. He began photographing in Chicago at the age of sixteen and has since devoted his thirty-plus-year career to creating expressive images from his elegant Ukranian Village studio.
With numerous award-winning commercial campaigns to his credit, Sandro is one of today's foremost fine-art photographers.
For the past eight years, in juried competitions within the industry, Sandro has been voted one of the top 200 advertising photographers in the world.
