Widening the Definition of Physical Beauty By Danielle Line At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

I have to say that The Adipositivity Project is one of the most amazing things I have come across on the web in a long time. For anyone that is plus size and into photography, art, modeling, and body/size acceptance this is something for you to feast your eyes on. Since I live and breathe all of the above I decided that I had to share it with anyone and everyone in the plus community.

The Adipositivity Project site features an impressive variety of photographs of the female body, some with clothes and some without so be prepared. Each photograph tells a completely different story and fills you with so many different emotions. This is art at its best in raw form, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

Here is some of the information about the site, the photographs, and the amazing photographer Substansia Jones who is behind it all.

The Adipositivity Project
Adipose: Of or relating to fat.
Positivity: Characterized by or displaying acceptance or affirmation.

The Adipositivity Project aims to promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), but rather, through a visual display of fat physicality. The sort that's normally unseen.
The hope is to widen definitions of physical beauty.

The photographs here are close details of the fat female form, without the inclusion of faces. One reason for this is to coax observers into imagining they're looking at the fat women in their own lives, ideally then accepting them as having aesthetic appeal which, for better or worse, often translates into more complete forms of acceptance.

The women you see in these images are educators, executives, mothers, musicians, professionals, performers, artists, activists, clerks, and writers. They are perhaps even the women you've clucked at on the subway, rolled your eyes at in the market, or joked about with your friends. This is what they look like with their clothes off. Some are showing you their bodies proudly, others timidly, and some quite reluctantly. But they all share a determination in altering commonly accepted notions of a narrow and specific beauty ideal. (S.Jones, 2009)

Substantia Jones’ photography has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US East Coast, and has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, and Time Out New York. She is biographied in the 2006 Who’s Who in America (though under the name her momma gave her), and has also been awarded a variety of photography awards.

The Adipositivity Project www.adipositivity.com is definitely a site that you should bookmark and check back often, as new photographs are added often. Believe me, you will not be disappointed. This is a collection of photographs that are real and breath taking. Please help spread this amazing message about The Adipositivity Project: Changing attitudes about the aesthetic validity of big women, one fat fanny at a time.

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