Wicked Game...

“I just feel so alone, even when I’m surrounded by other people.”

Russian photographer and photojournalist Natalia Ivanova initiated the ‘The Ethnic Origins of Beauty’ nonprofit project which is an artistic documentary and research into the diverse ethnic races interpreted through portraits of women and the conception of beauty around the globe.  The project began in 2012 and is far from over as Ivanova has only documented women of 90 nationalities so far. Behind each portrait lies a story that has been published with a video documentary, and with only 90 portraits completed, the organizers are continuing an ongoing search to record many other faces of different nationalities.

Long ago, the three nations lived together in harmony.