# Project Description

peluda

Olivia Policarpo

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I am a british-brazilian photographer. My practice mainly focuses on personal experience, with text being central to my practice. Dabbling between film and digital, I strive to recreate feelings present in certain aspects of my life, with the hopes these feelings will resonate with others.

I am a british-brazilian photographer. My practice mainly focuses on personal experience, with te...

College London College of Communication

Course BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography

Graduation year 2023

‘ peluda ’ is a visual documentation of my personal relationship with body hair. By using self-portraiture and diaristic writing, the narrative of my journey reclaims my personal experiences navigating my body hair.

The project title ‘ peluda ’, a word in Brazilian Portuguese is used to describe a hairy woman but excludes the hair on her head. The personification of my body hair allows the relationship to be visualised, through the medium of self-portraiture with the accompaniment of diaristic writing. ‘ peluda ’ is a documentation of the love-hate relationship one can have with their body hair, and how beauty standards can jeopardise this relationship. The theme I have chosen to explore within my work is the taboo of body hair for women within western beauty standards. I have created hair-infused ink by using strands of my own hair and a burning process, which is featured in my book.

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‘peluda’ is a visual documentation of my personal relationship with body hair. By using self-portraiture and diaristic writing, the narrative of my journey reclaims my personal experiences navigating my body hair.  The project title ‘p...

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