UNFILTERED
Real skin. Real texture. Real people. The anti-retouching manifesto in image form.
Every pore. Every line. Every so-called imperfection — left exactly as it is.
Unfiltered was a direct response to the retouching culture that has taken over the beauty industry. The smoothing, the blurring, the digital erasure of everything that makes a face real and human and interesting.
We shot on film. We printed the negatives. We scanned them without correction. What you see is what was there — nothing added, nothing removed.
The models were briefed with one instruction: be exactly who you are. No performance. No pose. Just presence.
Beauty does not need your help. It just needs you to stop interfering.
CREDITS
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Jimmy Bollaerts
PHOTOGRAPHER
Studio INFÊCTED
RETOUCHING
None. Zero. Zilch.
MODELS
INFÊCTED Collective