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Travel Photographer Captures What Happens When People Around The World Are Told They Are Beautiful
Mehmet Genç is a Turkish travel photographer who goes by the name of Rotasiz Seyyah (roughly translated as "nomad without a route"). His pictures are stunning but one project in particular will really put a smile on your face. He calls it "You Are So Beautiful" and the idea is simple. Genç tells the people he meets on his travels that they're beautiful and then captures their responses on film. And as you can see from the pictures below, his subjects often react in the sweetest of ways.
Genç spent six years working in IT in Istanbul before quitting to follow his passion for photography. "Fools courage can sometimes help you make the most important decisions in your life," he writes. He was born and raised in Samsum, Turkey, but these days he seems to call everywhere home. He's currently in Manaus, Brazil, and you can follow his travels on Instagram where he has over 91k followers.
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Justin time 9 years ago
That is the purest, unfiltered look of joy I've ever see, it literally gave me goosebumps
Yucel Yalim 5 years ago
Seeing beauty and communicating the truth of this vision with sufficient veracity allows one to photograph beauty more deeply
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Justin time 9 years ago
From cool, collected, and a little bit sceptical to utter joy I'm a matter of seconds!
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Justin time 9 years ago
The fact that those two worlds can have a "school girl-like reaction makes me so happy!
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Justin time 9 years ago
Both her smiles are her 'polite' smiles. She KNOWS she's beautiful and she tells herself that every day!
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Justin time 9 years ago
Her look of surprise tells me she probably only hears "you're beautiful" when talking to, or about the baby
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Justin time 9 years ago
She KNOWS she's beautiful! That confidence ever at her age is refreshing!
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Vanessa Figueroa 9 years ago
In the first picture I already new she was going to look more beautiful smiling
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Justin time 9 years ago
She turns from 'guarded' to 'safe and fearless in the blink of an her eye!
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Carolina Santos 9 years ago
It is such a real laugh :D 'Me?? HAHA beautiful?! HAHA! Oh go play with another one HAHA'
Verun Wiltschů 9 years ago
Just like me when someone told me something nice. 😂
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Tillie Martinussen 9 years ago
Haha, she looks like he kinda overstepped. Like: "Whoa there Mr! Take it down a notch"! X)
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Tillie Martinussen 9 years ago
Aaaw, she was happy to be told that! Yay! Joy with a little bit of shyness. <3
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Susanna Vesna 9 years ago
If she looks so beautiful in her current age, imagine how she looked when she was young! Wow
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Susanna Vesna 9 years ago
What is that? Face paint? (Not being sarcastic, i just genuinely dont know)
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Erin Nadeau 9 years ago
I love the changes in expression in their eyes, and they are genuinely smiling, and even a bit shy in a few of the photos. Beautiful project.
Kahlo Smith 9 years ago
I love the variety of reactions! Some people smile, some people laugh, some people get embarrassed and turn away. Just another expression of everyone's unique beauty <3
Selma Özcan 9 years ago
Photographer from Turkey. You can follow him from his facebook page as rotasiz seyyah :)
Anni -Manni 9 years ago
What a beautiful idea to go and tell them that they are beautiful because every people is beautiful<3
Belinda Matson 9 years ago
Thank you! I expected to see PEOPLE as the title says but they are all women why?
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Erin Nadeau 9 years ago
I love the changes in expression in their eyes, and they are genuinely smiling, and even a bit shy in a few of the photos. Beautiful project.
Kahlo Smith 9 years ago
I love the variety of reactions! Some people smile, some people laugh, some people get embarrassed and turn away. Just another expression of everyone's unique beauty <3
Selma Özcan 9 years ago
Photographer from Turkey. You can follow him from his facebook page as rotasiz seyyah :)
Anni -Manni 9 years ago
What a beautiful idea to go and tell them that they are beautiful because every people is beautiful<3
Belinda Matson 9 years ago
Thank you! I expected to see PEOPLE as the title says but they are all women why?
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