By Laura Dang

女攝影師鏡頭下的中國美女

Chinese Beauty in Mihaela Noroc’s Eyes

By Laura Dang

2013年，來自羅馬尼亞的女攝影師米哈埃拉·諾羅克開始了一項名為“美麗圖集”的項目，以表現(xiàn)在于世界的任何一個角落都能發(fā)現(xiàn)美。她計劃用15個月巡游世界，游歷包括厄瓜多爾、秘魯、澳大利亞和伊朗在內的37個國家。

諾羅克走遍了舊金山的大街小巷，登上過西藏高原。她鏡頭中的美人或來自繁華都市、落后農(nóng)村、社會主義國家首都、毗鄰伊斯蘭國的領域，或在洞穴內、山崖旁、峽谷裂縫中。據(jù)她的說法：她們是對美的最終定義。

諾羅克可以被看作是一個鉆石攫取者，她前往全球最邊遠的那些地方，帶給我們從未看過的景象。她不畏艱險，清楚地知道她要尋找的是什么。

“有時我拍照的時間只有30秒，因為我在街頭偶然遇見了一位有趣的女子。其他時候，前一天在社交網(wǎng)絡上找到她后，我可能會花上一個小時拍攝?！?/p>

對于諾羅克而言，20多歲和30歲出頭的女性是她拍攝的對象。而要是碰上超出這一年齡段的美女，她會想讓觀眾依照國家來比較臉蛋。她所特意拍攝的相同年齡段的女性照片背景均清爽且令人滿意，她讓人物本身成為評判標準。

諾羅克歷經(jīng)整整兩年，走遍全球各地拍攝美麗女子，她認為多多少少自己有了一個明智的看法。

“如今我能說，美無處不在，而且美與妝容、金錢、種族及社會地位都沒關系，與之有更多關聯(lián)的是成為你自己。”

的確，美麗無處不在。而“美麗圖集”使我想到了我曾耳聞的一句話——“女人是上帝創(chuàng)造出的珍寶。”

Mihaela Noroc, rumanian photographer embarked on her project titled “Atlas of Beauty” in 2013 to show that beauty can be found anywhere in the world. Her original campaign consisted of traveling the world for 15 months and visiting 37 countries that included Ecuador, Peru, Australia and Iran.

From the streets of San Francisco to the Tibetan plain, Noroc found females in upscale cities, backward villages, Communist capitals, ISIS-bordering territories, in caves, cliffs and under clefts to bring us, what she calls, the ultimate definition of beauty.

Noroc can be likened to a diamond thief, slipping into the most remote parts of the globe to bring backrarities we’d otherwise never behold. She’s daring and she knows exactly what she’s looking for.

“Sometimes I have only 30 seconds to make a portrait, because I meet an interesting woman, by chance, on the street. Other times, I maybe spend one hour, photographing, after I found her on a social network, a day before.”

Women in their late 20s and early 30s are her only subjects. While beauty exists outside this range, Noroc wants her audience to compare faces, country by country. Exclusively shooting women of the same age group in clean, respectable settings, lends itself to this critiquing.

After two full years of capturing pretty women everywhere, Noroc thinks she possesses somewhat of an informed opinion.

“Now I can say that beauty is everywhere, and it’s not a matter of cosmetics, money, race, or social status, but more about being yourself.”

Indeed, beauty is everywhere. The Atlas of Beauty leaves me thinking of a quote I once heard: “Woman is the jewel of creation.”