Love Me - Zed Nelson

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Award-winning photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty. The exhibition explores a new form of globalisation, where an increasingly narrow Western beauty ideal is being exported around the world like a crude universal brand. Whilst Nelson's subjects appear willing participants in an omnipresent culture of bodily improvement, they might equally be considered hapless victims - at the mercy of larger social forces and locked into an insatiable craving for approval. As the subject's frailties and pretensions are exposed, so too are we the viewer: our motives for looking, for inspecting, along with uncomfortable reminders of our own vanities and insecurities. An impression Gallery and Ffotogallery Touring Exhibition.