BECOMING

At the crossroads of fashion photography, beauty, and performance, Becoming explores these gestures of transformation. Inspired by the rituals of preparation found in queer, cabaret, and ballroom scenes, the project focuses on the moments when the body is

In a visual culture dominated by standardized beauty norms, the body can become a space for experimentation and transformation. Through makeup, prosthetics, and adornments, it shifts, distorts, and recomposes itself. The skin becomes an active surface: a place where identities, fictions, and forms are created. 

At the crossroads of fashion photography, beauty, and performance, Becoming explores these gestures of transformation. Inspired by the rituals of preparation found in queer, cabaret, and ballroom scenes, the project focuses on the moments when the body is constructed: when we apply, attach, tighten, glue, and apply makeup. These actions, often invisible, become central here. 

The photographed bodies appear at once protected, constrained, and amplified. Corsets, objects, textures, and ornaments extend or alter the anatomy. Makeup no longer serves merely to beautify: it creates a character, a presence, sometimes armor. 

Within this queer aesthetic, transformation becomes a tool of power. By moving away from ideals of naturalness, symmetry, and gender legibility, these images present bodies that defy dominant categories. 

Through these images, Becoming envisions the body as a territory of negotiation between desire, norms, and invention, a space where beauty can be at once struggle, play, and creation. Transformation becomes a tool of power.