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This Project Proves That Beauty Has No Nationality
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This Project Proves That Beauty Has No Nationality

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Beauty knows no nationality, and “The Ethnic Origins of Beauty” proves it. It’s a non-profit, artistic, documentary and research project dedicated to documenting the ethnic diversity of the human race by collecting images of different nationalities.

“To reach the hearts of the wider international and multicultural public, the language of beauty has been chosen,” reads the project’s website. “The objective of this project is to show the real scale of ethnocultural diversity in a full, systematic and creative way; to illustrate each and every distinctive ethnicity, however small it is, and whatever its official status.”

The author behind the project is Natalia Ivanova, a Russian photographer and photojournalist. So far she’s managed to gathered almost 100 photo and video portraits representing over 50 ethnic groups from 15 different countries across 4 continents, which is pretty impressive considering that the project only began in 2012. It was first officially presented at an exhibition devoted to International Women’s Day in March 2014 at its Parisian headquarters, and the project has also received the acknowledgment of UNESCO.

More info: The Ethnic Origins of Beauty | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube (h/t: brightside)

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James Gasson
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beauty has no nationality, but apparently it does have an age, weight, gender and perfect skin.

Daria B
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure... With all respect to the author and the good intentions, I don't see exactly how this is different from any Miss Universe contest...

Randy Allos
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not, but nowadays on boredpanda beauty and aesthetics don't seem to be enough, apparently people feel the need to always attach a social/environmental or some kind of politically correct agenda to their art to get more clicks...

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Irena Dumitrascu
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sick and tired of all the people complaining about useless stuff. Ohhh but all the girls are pretty and young! Pff where are the NORMAL girls! Ohhh the post insulted the jews...we are turning into a moaning bunch of idiots! Everything bothers us nowadays! Beauty actually exists in this world if you feel insulted by the mere existence of it then take your eyes out! And second people make mistakes even in published articles!

Cesi Baca
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a comments section, where people can comment and critique as they see fit. What I'm tired of is people like you who always pop up on comments pages and self righteously tell people to stop complaining and to not look if they don't like what they see. How about if you are tired of the comments your reading, YOU stop looking and go away.

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Emma L
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The French photo does not represent French features at all. Brown hair and eyes is what prevails in France.

Meeow
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's the point to have all these beauty without the name, just the countries name? I can just copy an image on Google and said this is what I've done. I mean if you want the world to know your project, you should do it right.

Marcos Laredo
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jew is not a Race... Semith would be the best choice for this...

Rey De Vega
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Obviously this campaign is saying everyone is beautiful.......everyone BUT Asians and Mexicans.......and Indians.

Mika Alma
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beauty is not surface appearance. Beauty has depth...you are mistaking Beauty for Pretty.

Vanessa
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah but now occidental countries don't have "one color" anymore. But I agree, these women are all beautiful!

Death Metal Kitty
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great job showing the world that beauty is defined by a very tight set of paramters of facial features, with small standard deviation from the average of this sampple. Therefore if you're not within the top 3% of each race, you're ugly? Great job.

David Elalouf
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jew is definitely not a nationality you can be jew and coming from any of those country. Very stupid .. why not add a portrait of a catholic, a muslim or a buddhist? WTF...

Tricia Overstreet
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Natalia Ivanova, Russian photographer and photojournalist. ... Splendid, Artful photography. You justly Offered Up an incredible glimpse/array of Such different Nationalities. Your idea of staying so close in age Reflected a Smooth Flow that Transitioned as an Entrancing Reflection of these Women from ALL over our Big Beautiful World

Nour Dabbabi
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This post is dumb , choosing models to show beauty is not the right thing to do that's 1st and second beauty lies in the street not in a studio.

El Exterminador
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It does have gender! thank goodness! and by the way, it is not JEW, but Israeli. And Jews girls are adorable!

Monseg
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are all the same type, clearly chosen to the taste of the author. Not a very good example

Logomachine
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All this girls are amazing! And i fell in love with tunisian girl and i love the color of skin finn girl, its like pure snow!

Justyna
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm not sure we should determine which natural face is beautiful and which is not. i, for example, don't like full lips. the author apparently loves only full lips. some women would do everything to look like "beauties". why spoil the fact that we are different? and focus on beautiful personalities instead?

Evan B
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The way Bored Panda organized the photos by skin complexion is really cool and I think would have made a great project itself, sadly, that's not what the project was. I find a lot of fault with the intended project. Yet Bored Panda made it look good. Too bad the people behind the project didn't think more about what they were saying and showing.

Mickey Eilon
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jew is not a country XD hehe jizz who made this article? and if you're trying to say Israel- it's half european people and half arabic. better put Bar Refaeli

Aleksandra Zi
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

eee? german dosn t look like german . Also french dosn t look like french..........This s a slavic type of beauty.

John Nathan Neil Dion
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's no representation of the Austronesian Peoples (e.g. Atayal [Taiwanese Aboriginal], Malay-Indonesian, Filipino, Polynesian), the Thai-Kadai Peoples, the Papuans, the Australian Aboriginals, and the Sami of Finland

Illumation Erwinus
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had the same idea a few years ago, "the beauties of different countries", a massive diptych of left:female and right:male. It never took of because it is very difficult to get pictures from all regions in the same style and quality.

Nuwaira Ali
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

South America, Middle East, South Asia .. East Asia ??? Lacking diversity right now ????????

Nuwaira Ali
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No question marks at the end, why can't i edit my post after posting. Bored Panda get on it.

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Sabrina Runcan
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beauty is all around us no matter of language,religion,nationality..beauty is found in every single person..

Ana-Maria Lazar
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On the same subject. Check this out: http://theatlasofbeauty.com/. An amazing project about the beauties of the world.

Cesi Baca
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Half of these are not ethnic groups and especially, as one person already pointed out, the one labeled "Jew." I respect what she is trying to show and portray, but most people's understanding of race and ethnicity is so so wrong. The concept of race is really a false one. It's one race we just all come in different varieties, sort of like cats......tabbys, calico, grey, black, long hair, short hair..... all of them are still just cats.

Richy Cook
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've just witnessed a page of lots of lovely looking women.

szatan667
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What that Jewish girl is doing there at the end? Too dark.......

Jody Kay Dorf
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If your going to be a photojournalist of any kind you should understand the difference between ethnicity and race. If your from Israel you can be or Christian among other religions. Judaism (NOT JEW) is a religion.It is offensive. I think what you meant was Israeli.

Obay AlBitar
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't believe i just read Jew! I even went to check if it's a short for a country or something i didn't know about! I can't believe you included Jew as a race you dumb a*s!

Helen Frances
Community Member
8 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

No Australian Aborigines? Italian/Greek/Spanish? Celt?

Alexander Schikora
Community Member
8 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

That is such a pointless post. I can find a black chick in every country of the world... there is something similar where they created the average face of different countries, that is actually what this stupid post should have done instead. #clickbait #sexism #gfys

James Gasson
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beauty has no nationality, but apparently it does have an age, weight, gender and perfect skin.

Daria B
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure... With all respect to the author and the good intentions, I don't see exactly how this is different from any Miss Universe contest...

Randy Allos
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not, but nowadays on boredpanda beauty and aesthetics don't seem to be enough, apparently people feel the need to always attach a social/environmental or some kind of politically correct agenda to their art to get more clicks...

Load More Replies...
Irena Dumitrascu
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sick and tired of all the people complaining about useless stuff. Ohhh but all the girls are pretty and young! Pff where are the NORMAL girls! Ohhh the post insulted the jews...we are turning into a moaning bunch of idiots! Everything bothers us nowadays! Beauty actually exists in this world if you feel insulted by the mere existence of it then take your eyes out! And second people make mistakes even in published articles!

Cesi Baca
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a comments section, where people can comment and critique as they see fit. What I'm tired of is people like you who always pop up on comments pages and self righteously tell people to stop complaining and to not look if they don't like what they see. How about if you are tired of the comments your reading, YOU stop looking and go away.

Load More Replies...
Emma L
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The French photo does not represent French features at all. Brown hair and eyes is what prevails in France.

Meeow
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's the point to have all these beauty without the name, just the countries name? I can just copy an image on Google and said this is what I've done. I mean if you want the world to know your project, you should do it right.

Marcos Laredo
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jew is not a Race... Semith would be the best choice for this...

Rey De Vega
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Obviously this campaign is saying everyone is beautiful.......everyone BUT Asians and Mexicans.......and Indians.

Mika Alma
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beauty is not surface appearance. Beauty has depth...you are mistaking Beauty for Pretty.

Vanessa
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah but now occidental countries don't have "one color" anymore. But I agree, these women are all beautiful!

Death Metal Kitty
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great job showing the world that beauty is defined by a very tight set of paramters of facial features, with small standard deviation from the average of this sampple. Therefore if you're not within the top 3% of each race, you're ugly? Great job.

David Elalouf
Community Member
7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jew is definitely not a nationality you can be jew and coming from any of those country. Very stupid .. why not add a portrait of a catholic, a muslim or a buddhist? WTF...

Tricia Overstreet
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Natalia Ivanova, Russian photographer and photojournalist. ... Splendid, Artful photography. You justly Offered Up an incredible glimpse/array of Such different Nationalities. Your idea of staying so close in age Reflected a Smooth Flow that Transitioned as an Entrancing Reflection of these Women from ALL over our Big Beautiful World

Nour Dabbabi
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This post is dumb , choosing models to show beauty is not the right thing to do that's 1st and second beauty lies in the street not in a studio.

El Exterminador
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It does have gender! thank goodness! and by the way, it is not JEW, but Israeli. And Jews girls are adorable!

Monseg
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are all the same type, clearly chosen to the taste of the author. Not a very good example

Logomachine
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All this girls are amazing! And i fell in love with tunisian girl and i love the color of skin finn girl, its like pure snow!

Justyna
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm not sure we should determine which natural face is beautiful and which is not. i, for example, don't like full lips. the author apparently loves only full lips. some women would do everything to look like "beauties". why spoil the fact that we are different? and focus on beautiful personalities instead?

Evan B
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The way Bored Panda organized the photos by skin complexion is really cool and I think would have made a great project itself, sadly, that's not what the project was. I find a lot of fault with the intended project. Yet Bored Panda made it look good. Too bad the people behind the project didn't think more about what they were saying and showing.

Mickey Eilon
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jew is not a country XD hehe jizz who made this article? and if you're trying to say Israel- it's half european people and half arabic. better put Bar Refaeli

Aleksandra Zi
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

eee? german dosn t look like german . Also french dosn t look like french..........This s a slavic type of beauty.

John Nathan Neil Dion
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's no representation of the Austronesian Peoples (e.g. Atayal [Taiwanese Aboriginal], Malay-Indonesian, Filipino, Polynesian), the Thai-Kadai Peoples, the Papuans, the Australian Aboriginals, and the Sami of Finland

Illumation Erwinus
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had the same idea a few years ago, "the beauties of different countries", a massive diptych of left:female and right:male. It never took of because it is very difficult to get pictures from all regions in the same style and quality.

Nuwaira Ali
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

South America, Middle East, South Asia .. East Asia ??? Lacking diversity right now ????????

Nuwaira Ali
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No question marks at the end, why can't i edit my post after posting. Bored Panda get on it.

Load More Replies...
Sabrina Runcan
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beauty is all around us no matter of language,religion,nationality..beauty is found in every single person..

Ana-Maria Lazar
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On the same subject. Check this out: http://theatlasofbeauty.com/. An amazing project about the beauties of the world.

Cesi Baca
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Half of these are not ethnic groups and especially, as one person already pointed out, the one labeled "Jew." I respect what she is trying to show and portray, but most people's understanding of race and ethnicity is so so wrong. The concept of race is really a false one. It's one race we just all come in different varieties, sort of like cats......tabbys, calico, grey, black, long hair, short hair..... all of them are still just cats.

Richy Cook
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've just witnessed a page of lots of lovely looking women.

szatan667
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What that Jewish girl is doing there at the end? Too dark.......

Jody Kay Dorf
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If your going to be a photojournalist of any kind you should understand the difference between ethnicity and race. If your from Israel you can be or Christian among other religions. Judaism (NOT JEW) is a religion.It is offensive. I think what you meant was Israeli.

Obay AlBitar
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't believe i just read Jew! I even went to check if it's a short for a country or something i didn't know about! I can't believe you included Jew as a race you dumb a*s!

Helen Frances
Community Member
8 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

No Australian Aborigines? Italian/Greek/Spanish? Celt?

Alexander Schikora
Community Member
8 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

That is such a pointless post. I can find a black chick in every country of the world... there is something similar where they created the average face of different countries, that is actually what this stupid post should have done instead. #clickbait #sexism #gfys

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