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Romanian photographer capturing diversity of women's beauty is in India

Romanian photographer capturing diversity of women's beauty is in India

Mihaela Noroc has travelled the world to capture the natural beauty of women from all walks of life
04 Jan, 2016

Touring photographers are fast becoming a trend.

There's Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York fame who documents the everyday lives and experiences of ordinary people, and does a whole lot of good in the process. There's Nataly and Murad Osmann, the famous hand-holding couple of Instagram whose globetrotting adventures are a viral sensation.

And then there's Mihaela Noroc, a 30-year-old professional photographer from Romania whose interest in "discover(ing) the sincere and authentic side" of people has led to her Atlas of Beauty project.

My first days in India, with The Atlas Of Beauty. It's gonna be a colourful journey.

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Noroc has travelled the world, from "Western Europe to African Tribes, and from Rio de Janeiro to China" to capture the natural beauty of women from all over the world.

The photographer is traversing South Asia and recently landed in India, Buzzfeed reports.

And her photographs reveal the country's diversity:

These days I explore the streets of Mumbai, India. #TheAtlasOfBeauty #India #AroundTheWorld

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Today in Delhi, India. #TheAtlasOfBeauty #AroundTheWorld #India

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Noroc hopes her project serves as "an inspiration for all women that try to be themselves."

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sana Jan 04, 2016 06:01pm
Come to Pakistan , you will find more beauties than any other part of the world,
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GA Jan 04, 2016 06:11pm
Her concept of beauty may not be the same as for others as is shown in these photographs.
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siri Jan 04, 2016 06:45pm
Come to Pakistan, we will show you what beauty is ;-)
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Leo Jan 04, 2016 08:32pm
I am an Indian, but on an average the Pakistani women are much prettier than their Indian counterparts..
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Sudhakar USA Jan 04, 2016 08:49pm
Beauty is skin deep and in the beholder's eye. For some beauty is only in Pakistani women, for others, beauty is only in Indian women. Each to their own.
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Roy Jan 04, 2016 09:05pm
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beautiful women comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and I love them all.
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asad Jan 04, 2016 09:23pm
I have travelled whole Europe and Scandinavia especially... but Pakistani beauty is..... speechless....
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Asma Ali Jan 04, 2016 09:52pm
Pretty and confident women!!
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Suresh Jan 04, 2016 10:48pm
I think everyone have different point of view, on her perspective "the beauty of diversity". Simple is that, everyone is beautiful in their own, I love every one irrespective their origin, religion and other belief...
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rashid Jan 04, 2016 10:59pm
India has its own culture and their unique facial beauty, but unfortunately the racist Bollywood has given it a different dimension.
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Ume Zainab Jan 04, 2016 11:08pm
Goodness me. Second last pic is pretty interesting! Now I doubt you'll find That in Pakistan. Imagine, going grocery sabzi shopping with all them tikka koka & what-the-bleep around your neck. That said, all women are pretty either side of the border no matter how u slice it.
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Peace Jan 04, 2016 11:17pm
You can find the same beauty in India which you find in Pakistan but you can never find the similar beauty in Pakistan which you find in India. India has diversity in everything. Visiting India is like visiting many countries. That's the beauty of India which is very unique. You can find every human race in India....
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vijay Jan 04, 2016 11:18pm
Everybody's concept of beauty is different, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Mirza Baig Jan 04, 2016 11:47pm
Beauty is not limited to any boundary or geographical location. I have seen stunningly beautiful Indian Pakistani, Lebanese, African, American, Arab, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and all sort of women. God has made woman beautiful in many ways.
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Pagal Jan 05, 2016 12:10am
To me last picture is penetrating deep in my heart. All amazing pictures.
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Antony Milton V Jan 05, 2016 12:13am
Women are not a beauty products to show to others each and every country should be proud of thr Women.....!!!!!!
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BRR Jan 05, 2016 12:33am
Love these beautiful photos, and the souls behind those beautiful eyes.
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To The Point Jan 05, 2016 12:57am
So true.
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dasu Jan 05, 2016 01:05am
I am a Pakistani and I see beauty in all these Indian women , so stop saying come to Pakistan and see..each women is beautiful in her own way and is creation of God ..so please stop treating women as objects ...just my 2 cents..agree or disagree does not matter!!
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Trump Jan 05, 2016 01:28am
Every women irrespective of her race or nationality has to endure the same physical if not social or emotional pain! So, Why just celebrate beauty? Why not Women and Womanhood???
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A shah Jan 05, 2016 01:59am
All do beautiful. India truly has the most beautiful women in the world!
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SaveTheFuture Jan 05, 2016 02:01am
These photos are good but average at best. Nothing new. I appreciate the effort but no need to go gaga over the quality of portraits. There are better portraits of women of south asia , india ,pak, srilanka available online.
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Jawwad Jan 05, 2016 02:43am
Beautiful people and beautiful pictures. As for my fellow Pakistani friends, all living being on this planet are beautiful.
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Anwar Sadiqque Jan 05, 2016 02:48am
South Asian idea of beauty is a fairer skin. The girl can by ugly but if she has white skin then she is "beautiful".
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kuttathi Jan 05, 2016 06:05am
feminine beauty is not just the good looks.But also smartness, intelligence and so many other positive qualities.Indian women are versatile in every field and so, the most beautiful
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Reality Bites Jan 05, 2016 06:30am
People, don't start with comparing Pakistan and India or for that matter any other country. Its quite a racist attitude putting down anyone for their looks. Simple everyday people have a charm that cannot be compared to any made up fake toned person. What nature gave anyone is just that, not an accomplishment of the individual. That racist thinking is the difference between us south asians and the modern western thinking.
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B.Patel. (USA) Jan 05, 2016 06:45am
The Photographer should be commended for presenting the women in their natural ways. These pictures are not presented as a beauty pageant pictures. These ladies are mothers, daughters,, students doing their own things, in their natural surrounding. No matter which race, religion, place they represent, one sees beauty in each of them. Pl do not degrade this by comparing each other and create a beauty pageant .
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Gurmeet Jan 05, 2016 07:15am
@Leo maybe the beautiful indian women avoid you
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Thakur Jan 05, 2016 07:20am
I could not take my eyes off the pictures, every girls expression and beauty is so different! Such expressive eyes.
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kdp Jan 05, 2016 07:39am
@sana But that is not Diversity Sana. It is homogeneous and boring
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Chandeler Jan 05, 2016 07:48am
@sana Beauty is not only physical beauty it should also have brain
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Jitender Singh Nohwar Jan 05, 2016 08:35am
@siri .....Indian women has won 3 times Miss world and twice Miss Universe !!! world is crazy with Bollywood female stars !!!
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Harsh Jan 05, 2016 09:27am
Laughing at comments by some Pakistanis and Indians. Most people have no clue about what beauty is. If she just wanted to photograph beautiful women, she would have gone to Paris and to some models. She is capturing the beauty in everyday life and everyday people in their natural surrounding.
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nastik Jan 05, 2016 10:03am
Beautiful, marvelous, outstanding!!
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zakhta Jan 05, 2016 10:09am
you may call it 'diversity', beauty no way. Even Indians themselves like women from other countries.
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sophie Jan 05, 2016 10:17am
One thing is common in all these pictures.. Confident and daring eyes. I just love to see the different concept of beauty. I wish we could ever get out of poetic concept of beauty. Real beauty is truly expressed . Thumbs Up Photographer
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Riz Jan 05, 2016 10:17am
@sana If you are referring to a beauty of women, then rethink. It is not restricted to a country. It may be anywhere.
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jamal Jan 05, 2016 10:29am
Beauty is one that shines through from the eyes. Rest is superficial which fades with age.
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Paindoo Jan 05, 2016 10:30am
Pakistani women are far better looking than this. Not a single one of these women is 'beautiful' by the standards of India's own Bollywood.
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Tanqeed Jan 05, 2016 10:33am
@sana what is your concept of beauty? Being bright in color? If you can't see the beauty in the first picture of this Article, you wouldn't find it anywhere in this universe. Everyone is beautiful. Everyone has a different beauty. I am really sorry to say but majority in the Asian countries thinks of bright color as a beauty. You all are the same as Ayesha Sana. "Brught Karain Isay, Bright karain' Sincerely, A Pakistani
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Ayaz Munir Jan 05, 2016 10:35am
Russel Peters once defined India facial characteristics very well in a joke calling Indian map a color graph , with very fair at the top while getting darker and darker as we get down the map.
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Thinking Man Jan 05, 2016 10:54am
Women and beauty it is all around us in every land on God's green earth. The beauty of women lies not just in their appearance (although some think so) it lies in what this gender has been to humanity, loving and caring mothers. Men have been in-charge of world's politics and what a mess we have made. Our salvation at least to some extent lies in educating and empowering the women the world over. I salute women of every nation, color and race, they are all beautiful to me.
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Adventurer Jan 05, 2016 11:10am
@sana But how can a beauty be seen - They are covered from head to toe.
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Adventurer Jan 05, 2016 11:11am
@Harsh Yes natural beauty without any makeup. Only original.
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Dove Jan 05, 2016 11:41am
Complexation doesn't matter, Pretty indian women indeed
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Shahzad Jan 05, 2016 12:11pm
Well If Someone Says Being Dark is Being Ugly, Look at these beautiful Pictures. I personally Find Dark Skin Appealing and Attractive. Plus For my Pakistani Fellow here bragging about their White skin should Stop Talking like that. Do not Make People feel bad for their Skin What so ever Right? And on the Other Hand what else we got Just White Skin? Huh? So Just STOP!
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Shahzad Jan 05, 2016 12:11pm
@Peace Thats Right Yeah.
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sam Jan 05, 2016 12:13pm
Beauty is not skin alone, it is more than that ..
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Shahzad Jan 05, 2016 12:14pm
@Harsh That's Why they say, ''beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder''. These are Some Beautiful Pictures With Beautiful People in them.
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jeevan Jan 05, 2016 12:35pm
pretty?? she can find the " pretty faces" more in Romania in fact 100%, if that is the criteria for beauty.
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cc Jan 05, 2016 12:38pm
I am always amused every time comparisons are made between our societies in the ‘comments’ column. Some of us try to highlight that we share same roots, whereas others insist that we are vastly different. However, one thing we share in common is that we pathetically vie for Goras’ endorsement! Grow up and smell the coffee people!
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KAZIM REZA Jan 05, 2016 12:47pm
Her gifted lens depicts poems.She knows how to distinct gems.Wonderful!
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Rajat Jan 05, 2016 01:53pm
There are women far more beautiful in Delhi, punjab, HP and JK than all of Pakistan combined, but the point this graceful author /photographer trying to make is that there are different definitions of beauty and we should appreciate them all
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jawad Jan 05, 2016 02:08pm
if she visits lahore,rawalpindi,peshawar,swat,gilgit,hunza valley, azad kashmir,quetta,karachi in pakistan she will find the beauties she could not imagine.
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jawad Jan 05, 2016 02:10pm
beauty is in the eye of beholder
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Harsh Jan 05, 2016 02:27pm
@Shahzad : Unfortunately Pakistanis are brown people, not white.
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Khwarezmi Jan 05, 2016 03:53pm
@Peace CVisiting pakistan is (also) like visiting many countries: different states with different languages, dressing, cultures, different foods, different skin tones and so on. This is why Pakistan is a federation of states.
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Khwarezmi Jan 05, 2016 03:57pm
@Rajat My Indian friends from North India hold a very different view. I have always been told Pakistani women are much more beautiful then Indians. Also, Kashmir is a disputed territory and it's Muslim population have much more in common with Pakistan with whom they share family relations then those with Hindus.
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ramesh Jan 05, 2016 04:31pm
girls have mostly two catogary that is either beautiful or more beautiful!!!!!!
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ramesh Jan 05, 2016 04:31pm
girls have mostly two catogary that is either beautiful or more beautiful!!!!!!
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Salim Khan Jan 05, 2016 04:46pm
These are real beauties and not the once's that are made to look beautiful with makeup. India has such huge diversity that very few countries in the world has. No wonder it has won many Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Planet competitions.
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Salman Jan 05, 2016 04:46pm
All women are beautiful, whether they are from Pakistan or India, or any other part of the world.
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Zulfiqar_Ahmed Jan 05, 2016 08:19pm
Beautiful looking girls. Very cool initiative in embracing natural beauty over the artificial.
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Saiyada Khadija Rizvi Jan 06, 2016 05:53am
Very noble cause to pursue and promote
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Nangyal Jan 06, 2016 05:59am
@Tanqeed Precisely! well said.
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Intel Jan 06, 2016 07:42am
See the confidence in the eyes of each woman, that makes it so beautiful.
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