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THINSPIRATION – FANZINE
The Pro-ana community has turned anorexia (Ana) into its dogma. They venerate the illness giving meaning to their totalitarian “lifestyle”. It’s a virtual reality where they state commandments, share motivating tricks and exchange hundreds of images of thin models via their blogs. They have created Thinspiration, a visual new language - obsessively consumed to keep on wrestling with the scales day after day. Now, they evolved interacting with their cameras portraying their bony clavicles or flat bellies; or consuming extreme anorexic images, the Pro-ana have made Thinspiration evolve. I re-take their self-portraits, photographing and reinterpreting their images from the screen, resulting the visual response to the bond between obsession and self-destruction; the disappearance of one’s own identity. The project is a personal and introspective journey across the nature of obsessive desire and the limits of auto-destruction, denouncing disease’s new risk factors: social networks and photography.
- Femme Love
- A Bad Day
- Romeo&Romeo
- Last Cabaret
- Blind Captain
- Cast Away
THINSPIRATION – FANZINE
Thinspiration Book | © 2012 | Laia Abril.
ISBN 978-84-15574-55-2
Printed in June 2012, (Italy)
First Edition of 500
46 Unfolded pages | 80 photos
Size closed 230×308 mm
Full Color Offset
Photography and concept by Laia Abril.
Art Direction: Ramon Pez with Guillermo Brotons.
Edition consulting: Cristina de Middel and Silvia Omedes.
Concept, Photography, Design and Editing | © 2012 | Laia Abril.
Texts | © 2012 | The authors.