How many times we complained about a nose a little crooked an eyebrow a bit higher than the other, a slightly smaller eye? Often think that the more harmonious and beautiful faces are those perfectly symmetrical. It was wrong according to Alex John Beck, the author of these photos.

With the help of Photoshop the photographer has created “special” portraits of his models, achieving perfectly symmetrical versions of the left side or the right side of the face. The result has been collected in the photographic project Both Sides Of. The first of the pictures you see, the left one, was obtained with only the left side of the model’s face, also mirrored symmetrically on the right side. The right photo, on the contrary, was created reflecting from both sides the right part of the face of the woman.

What the photographer has failed, however, is the original photo of his subjects : “I wanted to avoid that the viewer continues to make comparisons with the original version,” he explained ,”after all , that’s just a boring portrait.” For those who want at all costs to see the true face of these people, the photographer may want to print both portrait and juxtapose them by bending one of the two parts.

With his experiment, Beck wants to prove that the stereotype of beauty without imperfections and asymmetries is totally unfounded.”I think these faces missing character” he explained , “and the beauty is more about personality than some arbitrary parameters.»

Since Beck often works with models from particularly well- proportioned faces, some of these photos do not give transparent big differences .

But there is one detail that caught the attention of the author of the project: the eyes. According to Beck, the right version, obtained with the right side of the face, shows a more watchful eye and mind of the left, from a little less concentrated. The effect is particularly visible in the photos of this guy.

Born in 1991 in the Bronx in New York, in the center of the African American community par excellence, Shaun Ross is famous among his comrades, for albinism. Do not go there a lot of imagination to understand how much power can be complex to grow in the Bronx for a black of white complexion. The same complexion that leads him, at sixteen, to tread the catwalk for Alexander McQueen and Givenchy, and pose for Vogue, i-D magazine, GQ, after years of Alvin Ailey American Theater Company study.

His albinism is therefore the cure and the disease, the reason for ridicule and success, and it is also the reason that led to the realization of a strong campaign as #inmyskiniwin ie “In my skin I win” tag launched on Instagram and thanks to an interview for Vogue Italy is giving resonance to the message that Shaun has the intention to launch, the beauty of diversity.

As he himself says, it is important to break the mold of seriality and standardization, and understand that it is also right to highlight and especially the diversity of individuals. With #inmyskiniwin are tagged photos of unconventional beauty, because “the boys need to understand who they are and scream to the world its existence and identity,” explains Shaun of Vogue Italy.

A strong, positive personality, that of Shaun Ross, which allowed him to approach a complex issue and articulated with the power of everyday life – a photo on Instagram – and without any victimization or effect of compassion, even with an exceptional positive force.