I don’t ask her to fit external expectations, don’t correct her gestures, don’t demand a “proper” emotion. Every woman has the right to appear exactly as she feels natural.

I tell her she is beautiful — not to comfort her, but to remind her that beauty is not measured by a standard, a shape, or an image. It appears where a woman feels safe enough to be herself. My task is not to alter her appearance, but to acknowledge her right to her own presence. Her right to be seen without judgment. Her right not to hide her vulnerability.

In this project, the camera becomes not a tool of control, but a tool of respect — a gentle boundary within which a woman can open herself without fear of judgment.

This approach is socially significant because it returns to a woman something that is often taken away — the possibility to be seen as she truly is, while remaining safe.

Every woman has the right to be seen and heard. Art becomes the place where her inner voice can sound clearer, and where her presence receives space and attention.

In the artistic space, a woman is no longer obliged to meet expectations — she can exist in her own rhythm, speak in the way that is natural to her, and be perceived without judgment or pressure.

Art gives her a form of presence that is often inaccessible in everyday reality: a form where what is valued is not appearance but depth, not behavior but authenticity, not “correctness” but honesty.

by Ekaterina Makarova-Kazakova

@makarova_kazakova