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Jasmine De Silva

from Emerging Photographer, Vol. 11, No. 1

from Emerging Photographer, Vol. 11, No. 1, page 28

Jacob Boll

My photo series “How to Build Your Human” focuses on exhaustive attempts to achieve a level of perfection that doesn’t exist through cosmetic reconstruction. The commitment to physically altering yourself is fascinating to me. For the shoot, I created

a handmade set that depicts a surreal, retro-futuristic world. As the Barbie hands build the humans, there is a question of who operates the “control” in this world. This series is the first time I truly felt I had communicated this concept in a visual way, through an aesthetic that was inspired by 1950s instructional videos of how to be the perfect housewife, videos of doll manufacturing and makeup tutorials on YouTube.

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