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BIFA 2023

My Skin, My Garden

  • Photographer
    Maira Ray

The picture aims to provoke the discussion of what is seeing as beauty nowadays, this picture portrays a woman with vitiligo. The orchids were chosen to match her skin patterns insinuating that the latter are adornments as beautiful and rare as the former. Also part of the series the body I live in.

Maira Ray is a Brazilian-born Portrait and Fashion photographer based in Paris. After graduating in Business Management at Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Maira worked in a public company for two years before deciding to start anew and move to Dublin, Ireland, to improve her English. It was during this period that she started photography as a way to share her experience with family and friends. Maira traveled over 22 countries in Europe and Africa, using her phone to capture the landscapes and cityscapes of the places she visited. At the age of 26, she was presented with her first came