Beauty knows no nationality, and “The Ethnic Origins of Beauty” proves it. It’s a non-profit, artistic, documentary and research project dedicated to documenting the ethnic diversity of the human race by collecting images of different nationalities.
“To reach the hearts of the wider international and multicultural public, the language of beauty has been chosen,” reads the project’s website. “The objective of this project is to show the real scale of ethnocultural diversity in a full, systematic and creative way; to illustrate each and every distinctive ethnicity, however small it is, and whatever its official status.”
The author behind the project is Natalia Ivanova, a Russian photographer and photojournalist. So far she’s managed to gathered almost 100 photo and video portraits representing over 50 ethnic groups from 15 different countries across 4 continents, which is pretty impressive considering that the project only began in 2012. It was first officially presented at an exhibition devoted to International Women’s Day in March 2014 at its Parisian headquarters, and the project has also received the acknowledgment of UNESCO.
More info: The Ethnic Origins of Beauty | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube (h/t: brightside)
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Share on FacebookBeauty has no nationality, but apparently it does have an age, weight, gender and perfect skin.
Jew is not a race it's a religious denomination....just saying
This is a screenshot from their website: jewish-57a...1d-png.jpg
Load More Replies...Not sure... With all respect to the author and the good intentions, I don't see exactly how this is different from any Miss Universe contest...
It's not, but nowadays on boredpanda beauty and aesthetics don't seem to be enough, apparently people feel the need to always attach a social/environmental or some kind of politically correct agenda to their art to get more clicks...
Load More Replies...sick and tired of all the people complaining about useless stuff. Ohhh but all the girls are pretty and young! Pff where are the NORMAL girls! Ohhh the post insulted the jews...we are turning into a moaning bunch of idiots! Everything bothers us nowadays! Beauty actually exists in this world if you feel insulted by the mere existence of it then take your eyes out! And second people make mistakes even in published articles!
This is a comments section, where people can comment and critique as they see fit. What I'm tired of is people like you who always pop up on comments pages and self righteously tell people to stop complaining and to not look if they don't like what they see. How about if you are tired of the comments your reading, YOU stop looking and go away.
Load More Replies...Obviously this campaign is saying everyone is beautiful.......everyone BUT Asians and Mexicans.......and Indians.
Great job showing the world that beauty is defined by a very tight set of paramters of facial features, with small standard deviation from the average of this sampple. Therefore if you're not within the top 3% of each race, you're ugly? Great job.
Jew is definitely not a nationality you can be jew and coming from any of those country. Very stupid .. why not add a portrait of a catholic, a muslim or a buddhist? WTF...
Natalia Ivanova, Russian photographer and photojournalist. ... Splendid, Artful photography. You justly Offered Up an incredible glimpse/array of Such different Nationalities. Your idea of staying so close in age Reflected a Smooth Flow that Transitioned as an Entrancing Reflection of these Women from ALL over our Big Beautiful World
Seriously? If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!
Load More Replies...This post is dumb , choosing models to show beauty is not the right thing to do that's 1st and second beauty lies in the street not in a studio.
It does have gender! thank goodness! and by the way, it is not JEW, but Israeli. And Jews girls are adorable!
All this girls are amazing! And i fell in love with tunisian girl and i love the color of skin finn girl, its like pure snow!
i'm not sure we should determine which natural face is beautiful and which is not. i, for example, don't like full lips. the author apparently loves only full lips. some women would do everything to look like "beauties". why spoil the fact that we are different? and focus on beautiful personalities instead?
The way Bored Panda organized the photos by skin complexion is really cool and I think would have made a great project itself, sadly, that's not what the project was. I find a lot of fault with the intended project. Yet Bored Panda made it look good. Too bad the people behind the project didn't think more about what they were saying and showing.
Jew is not a country XD hehe jizz who made this article? and if you're trying to say Israel- it's half european people and half arabic. better put Bar Refaeli
eee? german dosn t look like german . Also french dosn t look like french..........This s a slavic type of beauty.
There's no representation of the Austronesian Peoples (e.g. Atayal [Taiwanese Aboriginal], Malay-Indonesian, Filipino, Polynesian), the Thai-Kadai Peoples, the Papuans, the Australian Aboriginals, and the Sami of Finland
Had the same idea a few years ago, "the beauties of different countries", a massive diptych of left:female and right:male. It never took of because it is very difficult to get pictures from all regions in the same style and quality.
Definitely beauty is a natural gift not by race or country
South America, Middle East, South Asia .. East Asia ??? Lacking diversity right now ????????
No question marks at the end, why can't i edit my post after posting. Bored Panda get on it.
Load More Replies...Beauty is all around us no matter of language,religion,nationality..beauty is found in every single person..
On the same subject. Check this out: http://theatlasofbeauty.com/. An amazing project about the beauties of the world.
Half of these are not ethnic groups and especially, as one person already pointed out, the one labeled "Jew." I respect what she is trying to show and portray, but most people's understanding of race and ethnicity is so so wrong. The concept of race is really a false one. It's one race we just all come in different varieties, sort of like cats......tabbys, calico, grey, black, long hair, short hair..... all of them are still just cats.
If your going to be a photojournalist of any kind you should understand the difference between ethnicity and race. If your from Israel you can be or Christian among other religions. Judaism (NOT JEW) is a religion.It is offensive. I think what you meant was Israeli.
I can't believe i just read Jew! I even went to check if it's a short for a country or something i didn't know about! I can't believe you included Jew as a race you dumb a*s!
Beauty has no nationality, but apparently it does have an age, weight, gender and perfect skin.
Jew is not a race it's a religious denomination....just saying
This is a screenshot from their website: jewish-57a...1d-png.jpg
Load More Replies...Not sure... With all respect to the author and the good intentions, I don't see exactly how this is different from any Miss Universe contest...
It's not, but nowadays on boredpanda beauty and aesthetics don't seem to be enough, apparently people feel the need to always attach a social/environmental or some kind of politically correct agenda to their art to get more clicks...
Load More Replies...sick and tired of all the people complaining about useless stuff. Ohhh but all the girls are pretty and young! Pff where are the NORMAL girls! Ohhh the post insulted the jews...we are turning into a moaning bunch of idiots! Everything bothers us nowadays! Beauty actually exists in this world if you feel insulted by the mere existence of it then take your eyes out! And second people make mistakes even in published articles!
This is a comments section, where people can comment and critique as they see fit. What I'm tired of is people like you who always pop up on comments pages and self righteously tell people to stop complaining and to not look if they don't like what they see. How about if you are tired of the comments your reading, YOU stop looking and go away.
Load More Replies...Obviously this campaign is saying everyone is beautiful.......everyone BUT Asians and Mexicans.......and Indians.
Great job showing the world that beauty is defined by a very tight set of paramters of facial features, with small standard deviation from the average of this sampple. Therefore if you're not within the top 3% of each race, you're ugly? Great job.
Jew is definitely not a nationality you can be jew and coming from any of those country. Very stupid .. why not add a portrait of a catholic, a muslim or a buddhist? WTF...
Natalia Ivanova, Russian photographer and photojournalist. ... Splendid, Artful photography. You justly Offered Up an incredible glimpse/array of Such different Nationalities. Your idea of staying so close in age Reflected a Smooth Flow that Transitioned as an Entrancing Reflection of these Women from ALL over our Big Beautiful World
Seriously? If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!
Load More Replies...This post is dumb , choosing models to show beauty is not the right thing to do that's 1st and second beauty lies in the street not in a studio.
It does have gender! thank goodness! and by the way, it is not JEW, but Israeli. And Jews girls are adorable!
All this girls are amazing! And i fell in love with tunisian girl and i love the color of skin finn girl, its like pure snow!
i'm not sure we should determine which natural face is beautiful and which is not. i, for example, don't like full lips. the author apparently loves only full lips. some women would do everything to look like "beauties". why spoil the fact that we are different? and focus on beautiful personalities instead?
The way Bored Panda organized the photos by skin complexion is really cool and I think would have made a great project itself, sadly, that's not what the project was. I find a lot of fault with the intended project. Yet Bored Panda made it look good. Too bad the people behind the project didn't think more about what they were saying and showing.
Jew is not a country XD hehe jizz who made this article? and if you're trying to say Israel- it's half european people and half arabic. better put Bar Refaeli
eee? german dosn t look like german . Also french dosn t look like french..........This s a slavic type of beauty.
There's no representation of the Austronesian Peoples (e.g. Atayal [Taiwanese Aboriginal], Malay-Indonesian, Filipino, Polynesian), the Thai-Kadai Peoples, the Papuans, the Australian Aboriginals, and the Sami of Finland
Had the same idea a few years ago, "the beauties of different countries", a massive diptych of left:female and right:male. It never took of because it is very difficult to get pictures from all regions in the same style and quality.
Definitely beauty is a natural gift not by race or country
South America, Middle East, South Asia .. East Asia ??? Lacking diversity right now ????????
No question marks at the end, why can't i edit my post after posting. Bored Panda get on it.
Load More Replies...Beauty is all around us no matter of language,religion,nationality..beauty is found in every single person..
On the same subject. Check this out: http://theatlasofbeauty.com/. An amazing project about the beauties of the world.
Half of these are not ethnic groups and especially, as one person already pointed out, the one labeled "Jew." I respect what she is trying to show and portray, but most people's understanding of race and ethnicity is so so wrong. The concept of race is really a false one. It's one race we just all come in different varieties, sort of like cats......tabbys, calico, grey, black, long hair, short hair..... all of them are still just cats.
If your going to be a photojournalist of any kind you should understand the difference between ethnicity and race. If your from Israel you can be or Christian among other religions. Judaism (NOT JEW) is a religion.It is offensive. I think what you meant was Israeli.
I can't believe i just read Jew! I even went to check if it's a short for a country or something i didn't know about! I can't believe you included Jew as a race you dumb a*s!
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