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The Lipstick Portraits Featuring Jonathan Kroppmann by Michael Angelo | Exclusive

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Expressed through the medium of pho­tog­ra­phy to bring aware­ness to The Somaly Mam Foun­da­tion, Red’s Jonathan Kropp­mann is one of sixty sub­jects pho­tographed by Michael Angelo for Won­der­land Beauty Par­lor. Whereas make-​​up to most rep­re­sent the tools of free expres­sion, an item as sim­ple as lip­stick can mark the plight of young girls in coun­tries like Cam­bo­dia who are forced to wear red lip­stick to be sold as slaves in brothel. In great con­trast, Angelo reclaims red lip­stick as a sym­bol of free­dom and empow­er­ment by show­cas­ing unique indi­vid­u­als who pave a path of their own in The Lip­stick Por­traits. As Angelo shared, “After 20 years of col­lab­o­rat­ing with peo­ple in the realm of appear­ance, I have had a unique oppor­tu­nity to explore the role of beauty in our cul­ture and learn some deep truths about it. I have worked with peo­ple who are con­sid­ered to be amongst the most beau­ti­ful in the world and found them to be sig­nif­i­cantly less so, and I have worked with some excep­tion­ally unusual look­ing char­ac­ters who have awed me with the beauty of their substance.”

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The Somaly Mam Foundation’s mis­sion is “to give vic­tims and sur­vivors a voice in their lives, lib­er­ate vic­tims, end slav­ery, and empower sur­vivors as they cre­ate and sus­tain lives of dignity.”

For more infor­ma­tion please visit:
www.somaly.org
www.401projects.com
www.wonderlandbeautyparlor.com
web.mac.com/michael_angelo

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