Your Body Is Your Temple
Photography and editorial by Mildred Cheng
We are living in a society that is full of judgments and strict beauty standard. Mass media is spreading a monotonous aesthetic standard and people believe the only way to make themselves beautiful is to follow that standard. The media has defined for us what beauty is. The constant brainwashing of advertisements make us forget our own unique, individual and true beauty. How people dress, how people put make up on their faces and how people alter their bodies, shows what they believe and what they want to present to the others.
The goal of my book is to show people who are not following the social standard and feel confident being unique among the monotonous aesthetic standard of mass media. They decorate their “temples” in the way they like and feel comfortable to share their beliefs openly with society. They are the living temples that tell the society that beautiful is not only one way, you are beautiful in your own way.
