This is my Photostory and it's about the anti-beauty culture. When I first did research on anti-beauty it was described as a new wave of identities within the model industry, agencies championing unconventional faces and we end up seeing them in mainstream media and it made me think about the underground culture . I'm all about the grunge movement , grunge philosophy so when I thought about the term anti-beauty, I thought about individuals who have been exiled from any sort of community and have started this anti subculture.
Within this anti subculture there's many people who have been chewed and abandoned by communities that supposedly had an ethos of love and acceptance. One thing is once you join an underground community sometimes your identity isn't yours , it becomes homogenised trauma , homogenised experiences which can be good sometimes but I believe the essence of anti-subculture should be about brute freedom of expression and every individual is their own identity but it doesn't feel like that anymore. The anti-subculture is very complex , anti-individuals have been outcasts because they chose freedom over any politics that represses them however it's getting to a point where they are being sold to the same system that has systemically repressed their identity. anti-subculture is being materialised and sold, and the question is what is a subculture if there's no community?
This mirage of community is very very harmful , because in reality there's no community ; that feeding and motivating of underground/ anti individuals is not real but that shouldn't stop any individual expressing themselves in an antinomian way. You are your own community, the different versions we experience of ourselves will inspire many. Expression is one of the biggest rebellions, one man's breath of expression is another man's reason to live.
And my heart goes out to anyone in the queer community who has been dismissed , made homeless, excommunicated by your own people . Because nothing hurts more than thinking you’re in a sanctuary of love and acceptance when actually you’re just surrounded by thorns .
Absurdity's rebellion
Exploring the limitless disposition of the Underground Culture
influenced by Davide Sorrenti
