Photographer Captures Post-Plastic Surgery In Stark Detail
Her photo series is entitled "Beauty Recovery Room," and it aims to uncover the real price of plastic surgery. "The idea of recording the moment when they look their worst: showing their bloodstained bandages, bruises, surgical guideline marks, and swollen body is not part of the fantasy of transformation," she said.
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Photographer Captures Post-Plastic Surgery In Stark Detail
But surprisingly, the photos haven't deterred many of Yeo's subjects from pursuing further surgeries. "During the photo shoots, even though they were in extreme pain, I could feel their excitement, the excitement of hopes realized. They seemed not to have the fears that I had; in fact, most of them were planning other surgeries in the near future," she said.
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Photographer Captures Post-Plastic Surgery In Stark Detail
Which didn't really surprise Yeo. "Our desire to be loved and valued coupled with our insecurity is far too powerful and far too well-fed to expect a dramatic rebellion ... my images are simply a societal and sociological record of a widespread transformation about the lengths we are prepared to go to in order to attain an idea; they are an affirmation, a question, an argument, and a challenge."
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Photographer Captures Post-Plastic Surgery In Stark Detail
In exchange for their photos, Yeo would drive the women to their surgeries and pick them up, care for them, and pick up their post-surgery pain pills.
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Photographer Captures Post-Plastic Surgery In Stark Detail
The experience forged a unique bond and intimacy between subject and photographer.
