(来源:沪江英语)
Mihaela Noroc, 29, embarked on her project titled “Atlas of Beauty” in 2013 to show that beauty can be found anywhere in the world。 Her original campaign consisted of traveling the world for 15 months and visiting 37 countries that included Ecuador, Peru, Australia and Iran。
2013年29岁的米哈埃拉·诺罗克开始了一项名为“美丽图集”的项目,以表现美丽能被发现于世界的任何一个角落。她原本的计划包括在15个月巡游世界,游历包括厄瓜多尔、秘鲁、澳大利亚和伊朗在内的37个国家。
From the streets of San Francisco to the Tibetan plain, Noroc found females in upscale cities, backward villages, Communist capitals, ISIS-bordering territories, in caves, cliffs and under clefts to bring us, what she calls, the ultimate definition of beauty。
诺罗克走遍了旧金山的大街小巷,登上过西藏高原。她镜头中的美人或来自繁华都市、落后农村、社会主义国家首都、毗邻伊斯兰国的领域,或在洞穴内、山崖旁、峡谷裂缝。据她的说法:她们是对美的最终定义。
Noroc can be likened to a diamond thief, slipping into the most remote parts of the globe to bring back rarities we’d otherwise never behold。 She’s daring and she knows exactly what she’s looking for。
诺罗克可以被看做是一个钻石攫取者,她前往全球最边远的那些地方,带给我们从未看过的景象。她不畏艰险,清楚地知道她要寻找的是什么。
“Sometimes I have only 30 seconds to make a portrait, because I meet an interesting woman, by chance, on the street… Other times, I maybe spend one hour, photographing, after I found her on a social network, a day before。”
“有时我拍照的时间只有30秒,因为我(那时)在街头偶然遇见了一位有趣的女子。其他时候,前一天在社交网络上找到她后,我可能会花上一个小时拍摄。”
Women in their late 20s and early 30s are her only subjects。 While beauty exists outside this range, Noroc wants her audience to compare faces, country by country。 Exclusively shooting women of the same age group in clean, respectable settings, lends itself to this critiquing。
对于诺罗克而言,20多岁和30岁出头的女性是她拍摄的对象。而要是碰上超出这一年龄段的美女,她会想让观众依照国家来比较脸蛋。她所特意拍摄的相同年龄段的女性照片背景均清爽且令人满意,她让人物本身成为评判标准。
After two, full years of capturing pretty women everywhere, Noroc thinks she possesses somewhat of an informed opinion。
诺罗克历经整整两年,走遍全球各地拍摄美丽女子,她认为多多少少自己有了一个明智的看法。
“Now I can say that beauty is everywhere, and it’s not a matter of cosmetics, money, race, or social status, but more about being yourself。”
“如今我能说,美无处不在,而且美与妆容、金钱、种族及社会地位都没关系,与之有更多关联的是成为你自己。”
Indeed, beauty is everywhere。 The Atlas of Beauty leaves me thinking of a quote I once heard: “Woman is the jewel of creation。”
的确,美丽无处不在。而“美丽图集”使我想到了我曾耳闻的一句话——“女人是上帝创造出的珍宝。”