Women Body Acceptance

Women Body Acceptance

story from 25–03–2023
(30 yo)
Karolina

“Thanks to the fact that I give myself time - thinking about my self acceptance changes and evolves, more and more often in the better direction.”

UNIQUE MEN’S STORY

story from 20–01–2023
(25, 26 yo)
Bartek& Franek

B:“ Lately it's important for me to be mentally comfortable and that I nourish my body. It's good to be nourished so the brain can work.”
F: “I think of myself in terms of "I'm the one who determines how I look and what I think of myself," it's much easier.”

story from 15–09–2022
(26 yo)

Laura

“At the moment, I accept my body as it looks. I have various color changes, which bothered me much more before pregnancy, now I absolutely don’t pay attention to it and treat it as something that is simply mine .”

story from 05–09–2022
(31 yo)

Malwina

“I started to appreciate my body and I don’t catch what is ugly and what I would like to improve”

story from 20–03–2022
(31 yo)

Ola

“The canon of beauty has changed very dramatically. Now I have the impression that we have come to a caricatured image of a woman.”

story from 19–03–2022
(31 yo)

Maja

“I try to hug myself and say that everything is fine. I’m on the way of understanding and liking my body.”

story from 23–01–2022
(24 yo)

Zuzia

“Do I like my body? Basically yes, time by time yes. There are also times when I find things I don't like at all. It’s definitely better than two years ago, I started to like it more.”

story from 15–12–2021
(19 yo)

Maja

“I'm moving away from the usual pattern of a woman and it's difficult to discover my femininity. I'm not yet sure what to base it on. If it's not about being beautiful. If it's not about being good to men.”

story from 24–12–2021
(20 yo)

Ada

“When I think about body acceptance, I don't think in terms of accepting it or not, I'm just learning to love my body. This is why I came into this world, to love myself. This is the most important object, love”

story from 13–11–2021
(27 yo)

Marysia

“With age, my attitude towards my body changes. I can see that it’s not all that important. I’m able to perceive this body globally - to function better with it, healthier for myself.”

story from 12–01–2021
(59 yo)

Magda

“I take care of my body and go regularly to gymnastics to maintain what I have – not to make my body firmer as I’m not sure this can really help, but just to be neat. Do I like it? Some parts I do, some I don’t. So far, I’ve enjoyed that I am rather slim.”

story from 07–01–2021
(35 yo)

Kasia

“Body positivity is a big requirement itself, the idea that you have to love yourself and your body. Loving is a very strong emotion and I think that hardly anyone can really love their body.”

story from 19–08–2020
(71 yo)

Bożenna

“There was a time in my life when I had to confront the body of my almost 90-year-old mum, and I had this impression that our shapes are becoming alike. Since that time I started to pay attention to the signs of ageing.”

story from 14–07–2020
(83 yo)

Marianna

“In my adolescence, there were no diets because people were happy that they had food to eat. I never talked to other women about losing weight. People enjoyed being employed, having money to survive, and a place to live. What we’re seeing now is crazy.”

story from 20–06–2020
(51 yo)

Agnieszka

“I do like my body. There are parts of it that I used to judge a lot like my belly, but now I see it differently. I look the way I look. My legs, my breasts – wow! I think they’re beautiful.”

story from 07–05–2020
(30 yo)

Malwina

“The attitude to my body is changing. I used to think that pursuing perfection would make me happy, but happiness slipped away somewhere in the chase.”

Every woman in the entire world can be a protagonist of our project. Women who are taking part in are overcoming their fears and break the barrier to decide on such an experience. They treat participation in it as a step towards acceptance, but also as a therapeutic session where you can talk about your life and bodyacceptance problems.

Women Body Acceptance

Artistic, photographic and social project led by sisters which focuses on the normalization of the female body in society. We broaden the perspective of the canon of female beauty.

Women Body Acceptance
Photobook

photographed and designed
by Marta Karkosa

300 limited signed copies,
unseen photographs & stories
First edition, 131 pages, hard linen cover screen printed

justnago publishing
supported by LUMA Foundation

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Unique, premiere edition of the photo book with full interviews of the first 7 heroines. Including exlusive, unpublished material from the project.

Printed on 14 x 18cm, highest quality photographic paper.
Linen book cover with silkscreen print on it.

The book is included on The Luupe list of the best photobooks by women + non-binary photographers in 2022.

We pledge to explore the subject of women’s body acceptance through discussion and action. For women, on their behalf and with their participation. Project has a social and research value. In addition to photos, we make interviews with women who tell their story and the approach to the subject of their own body.

We want women to open up to their bodies through conversations and photos and not be ashamed of their appearance. We want to break the dictum of shame, fear and non-acceptance. We want to talk about women's concerns, we want to stop judging ourselves and notice beauty and power of our bodies. Join the movement.

Marta Karkosa
Founder & photographer,
artist at heart
martakarkosa.com

Sign up for the project:
womenbodyacceptance@gmail.com

Women’s Stories