Carl Bower examines Colombia's beauty pageant obsession | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog

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Carl Bower’s Chica Barbie series won a Blue Earth Alliance prize for Best Project Photography and was a finalist for Photolucida’s 2009 Critical Mass Book Award. The project on Colombia’s obsession with beauty pageants is astute and multi-faceted, and Carl’s explanation of how he captured such a complicated phenomenon is powerful and eloquent. To see his work in person, check out the Select Gender show opening today at Farmani Gallery.

Link: Carl Bower examines Colombia’s beauty pageant obsession | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog