The sharp increase in exposure and interaction on social media characterizes the context in which young people are grow up today. The growing problem we see in today’s society with young people battling mental disorders and eating disorders is not a problem that evaporates from pretend it does not exist. Too many children and young adults are exposed to unrealistic beauty ideals that make them want to change healthy, strong and beautiful bodies.

At this rate we are judged as if we were walking sculptures, like we are all art that’s up for being appraised. We are reducing our own value to be only what we look like, not what we have to offer as human beings. We need global lows for ethical retouching, and all manipulation of bodies in fashion and commercial use should be illegal. My hope for the future is a society where our children can grow up without feeling the pressure of unreal ideals. Where we set our values on how we are as people, and our contributions to society, not by your waist measurements.

Sculptures of society is my visualization of how all this pressure feels. We need to change the systematic psychological pressure that the industry is imposing. Please remember that most of the images you are presented with on social media, in fashion magazines and on commercial posters are not real, do not compare yourself to fiction.

The pictures you will see in this series are real. The bodies have not been manipulated. And the models have actually been to all these locations and bent their bodies into this positions. Locations include closed mines, ice caves inside glaciers on Svalbard, in the lake called Gålåvatnet and many more challenging surroundings.

I hope you will take a minute to reflect around the thematic in this series.