Bare Reality: 100 Women, Their Breasts, Their Stories

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Laura Dodsworth's Kickstarter campaign to finance Bare Reality achieved its funding target within one day and the video accompanying the project was viewed 1. At the same time, in Western culture they are considered a woman’s single most significant sexual attribute. It gave me insight into women's changing relationships with their own bodies, in particular - the transformative power of breastfeeding!

In Bare Reality, 100 women bravely share un-airbrushed photographs of their breasts alongside honest, courageous, powerful and humorous stories about their breasts and their lives. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Your usual photography book is all about the photographer either showing off their technical skills or is self promotion. By turning my lens on physical taboos, I catalyse a ground-breaking conversation into social taboos and offer a deeply personal perspective on our most private, painful and pleasurable stories.

This book goes some way to answering some of those questions, and also highlights women's positive and negative impressions of themselves, attitudes of others, and the role breasts play in British culture - impressions that interestingly, often conflict with some of the other contributors. I love that the subjects' own words and stories are edited minimally, only for flow, and allowed to come through in each woman's voice. The book has several similarities to the online '007 breast' site, which has been running for a number of years, and likewise presents un-retouched photos of women's beasts along with text commentary; this book though, provides a more professional presentation of that format, both in terms of the photography, and structured interviews. Perfecto para trabajar con mujeres que han superado un cáncer o que tienen problemas para aceptar su propio cuerpo.I love how you learn each woman's story through her breasts her development, her response to the culture around her, illness, her sexuality, her children. Her previous books 'Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories', 'Manhood: The Bare Reality' and 'Womanhood: The Bare Reality' attracted worldwide media coverage and excellent reviews. das Buch 'Bare Reality' ist ein wunderbares Werk aus fotografischer Sicht und vor allem von Inhalt her.

I decided to create Bare Reality because I have always been fascinated by the dichotomy between women’s personal lives and how they are depicted in the media; between how we feel about breasts privately and how they are presented for public consumption. This touching, inspirational book cuts through the sexual objectification of breasts and encapsulates how unique, yet similar, we all are. women bare all, bravely sharing un-airbrushed photographs of their breasts alongside intensely personal stories about their breasts, bodies and lives. They talk about their boobs but really, they are just an extension of these wonderful, warm and funny individuals. Intimate, visually refreshing, maybe even surprising, Bare Reality will make you reconsider how you think and feel about your own body, and those of the women in your life.Airbrushed breasts, belonging to models and actresses, not only create an unflattering comparison but present an unobtainable ideal. I wanted to re-humanise women through honest photography, present our breasts as they really are and burst the “fantasy bubble” of the youthful, idealised and sexualised breasts presented by the media.

There has been so much public debate about breasts recently, from Free the Nipple to No More Page 3, from breastfeeding selfies on Facebook to Rihanna on the red carpet. Womanhood departs from the 'ideal vagina' and presents the gentle un-airbrushed truth, allowing us to understand and celebrate our diversity. We see images of breasts everywhere in the media and yet “real” breasts are taboo, hidden away beneath clothes and bras. It celebrates the diversity of women’s bodies, and refocuses us to the stories that our bodies can tell and the value they hold, rather than the various ways they can be judged. I got led to this book after reading The Guardian's excerpts from Laura Dodsworth's upcoming book Manhood.

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