Post: #1

A Romanian photographer grabbed her camera, credit card and backpack scouring the globe for beautiful women to photograph (damn why didn't I think of doing that?!)

The results are stunning. From the usual suspects like Columbia and Latvia, to some surprising places like Myanmar and the Amazon rainforest. Most of her subjects are painfully gorgeous. And they are not models. They are real women. Here's a couple of samples:

Finland:


Iran:


Myanmar:


Sure we all have certain types or features we like (which seems to drive the endless SEA vs EE vs LA arguments). But seeing all these different faces, skin tones, clothes, body languages, settings, you start to realize what we might miss getting trapped by the categories we use to dice up the world and, too often, people.

You can find more of her pics at:
https://instagram.com/mihaelanoroc/
http://www.boredpanda.com/women-portrait...ela-noroc/
(don't read the parade of stupidity called "comments" on BoredPanada.com -- just enjoy the visuals).

And as an aside, her IndieGoGo page has a pie chart showing a breakdown of her expenses over the past two years of travel. Super helpful to folks here who are planning an extended vacation and are wondering how to budget for it.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-atlas-of-beauty

Post: #2

"Realize what we might miss getting trapped by the categories we use to dice up the world and, too often, people"

Genuinely curious what you meant by that. Are you implying that society has become too superficial? You're probably right, but that ain't changing anytime soon.

And I don't know if it's just my yellow fever kicking in, but nobody touches that Burmese girl, IMO.

Post: #3

Perhaps we should all fund this.

Post: #4

It's a cool idea but I can't help but sip the hatorade here when it comes to the "funding". She wants to get paid to travel, all expenses, just to find one beautiful woman and take a nice picture. Assuming she is a good, but not an extremely talented photographer, it is a bit presumptuous.

If she wants to get paid then she should sell the book at the end. Getting funding up front is like having the cake and eating it too.

I would love to do what she is doing, but I think it would be much harder for a man to raise funds for something like this.

Maybe I'll do a pornographic version instead.

Post: #5

(03-26-2015 10:30 PM)mau man Wrote:  "Realize what we might miss getting trapped by the categories we use to dice up the world and, too often, people"

Genuinely curious what you meant by that. Are you implying that society has become too superficial? You're probably right, but that ain't changing anytime soon.

And I don't know if it's just my yellow fever kicking in, but nobody touches that Burmese girl, IMO.

Your last comment is sort of an example. You see, I have the exact opposite of yellow fever (the Persian girl is right up my alley though). But you're right. That Burmese girl is stunning. And her body language, the way she sits and holds herself. Its awesome. And I love that subtle, almost pissed off look she has.

But because I put myself in the "opposite of yellow fever" category I would normally miss all of that. And that's my loss.

Seeing all these women from dozens of different countries and how so many of them are so hot and so different from each other made me realize these categories are self limiting bullshit.

I guess its okay to have preferences. But its important to understand that there is also a lot of great stuff outside these preferences too. I will see Asia with fresh eyes the next time I visit.

Post: #6

I think most ( not all) of the time it's easier for a woman to get good shots of women who aren't professional models, they are always fucking posing when they know you ( a man) are taking a picture of them. They're too self-conscious because they know you're judging them and they try to turn it into a joke or a feel-good sexless moment.

I always say try to have no expression because they either duck-face or put on a forced smile.

This brings up the idea of preference leverage, the ration between the hotness of the type of girls that likes you over how much that type likes you.

American cheerleader type: I love them, they think I'm an insect of some sort.
Petite sweet provincial Filipinas: I love them, they think I'm a god of some sort, a little old but still a god.

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Post: #8

The chick doing the project

Post: #9

^ She's a pussyhound. Woof.

Post: #10

Ecuador - Man simple classic beauty. WB

Post: #11

(03-26-2015 11:17 PM)Blunt Wrote:  If she wants to get paid then she should sell the book at the end.

Fair point, I would buy this. She can provide 'reconnaissance'.

Post: #12

(03-27-2015 11:02 AM)Phoenix Wrote:  

(03-26-2015 11:17 PM)Blunt Wrote:  If she wants to get paid then she should sell the book at the end.

Fair point, I would buy this. She can provide 'reconnaissance'.

She is giving away an Ebook for a 30 dollar donation. Try putting that on your coffee table. Not a bad angle for her. A fully funded vacation to take pics and try to convert some hot chicks into lipstick lesbians.

A guy does this and he is a perv.

Post: #13

(03-26-2015 07:36 PM)scoobdubius Wrote:  Sure we all have certain types or features we like (which seems to drive the endless SEA vs EE vs LA arguments). But seeing all these different faces, skin tones, clothes, body languages, settings, you start to realize what we might miss getting trapped by the categories we use to dice up the world and, too often, people.

Man, I have to strongly disagree with you here.

Not with your theory, because lord knows I have had plenty of arguments defending Asian girls.

But these pictures are HEAVILY skewed towards Europe, with South America a close second.

I mean, look at the two Ethiopian chicks.





That's her representation of the country widely considered to have the hottest girls in Africa. The black girls she shot from Cuba and Colombia are WAY better looking.

Her Asian pics are just as bad. Not to sound "2/10 WNB" here, but that Burmese chick is a run of the mill cute Asian girl. I wouldn't put her any higher than a 7, to be honest.

Then she's got all these Tibetan mountain girls, some chubby Indonesian MILF, and a poor Thai girl.

Meanwhile most of girls from Europe are absolutely stunning, as well as a few of the South American girls.

The thing that stands out to me the most though is the class aspect.



I mean, come on. She's wearing pajamas in a dirty apartment.

Then you have all the other Asian and African girls in traditional dress.

But the European girls all looks like normal, middle class college students.

It's not really even a fair comparison and presents a really skewed picture. My guess is that she did the typical backpacker thing, and never actually saw the hot African and Asian girls because they don't hang around on the African plains in a dashiki.

Now, if we could get a red pill MAN to go around and actually do this with the cream of the crop in each country, THAT would be worth seeing. If anyone wants to chip in and fund me to go take pictures with my $100 point-and-shoot, just let me know

Post: #14

These pics are terrible, almost without exception.

As if a fucking uselessly intelligent dyke like that would ever choose the hottest girls and know to shoot them in the tastiest way like a man who loves pussy would.

This is the last sort of place you'd want to go to to get a real sense of what the choicest pussy around the world really looks like.

Post: #15

(03-26-2015 07:36 PM)scoobdubius Wrote:  And they are not models. They are real women.

"Models" are very "real". Legs, asses and cunts all real as they come.

The haranguing use of the stock phrase "real women", as opposed to the women that men actually want to fuck, is a classic feminist trope.

Post: #16

(03-27-2015 03:29 PM)The Lizard of Oz Wrote:  These pics are terrible, almost without exception.

As if a fucking uselessly intelligent dyke like that would ever choose the hottest girls and know to shoot them in the tastiest way like a man who loves pussy would.

This is the last sort of place you'd want to go to to get a real sense of what the choicest pussy around the world really looks like.

This is giving me an idea...

Post: #17

Yeah I get the criticism, but like someone just said, if you're a guy and you do this it comes of like a perv, but if you're a girl its fine. Hence a girl can theoretically do better reconnaissance for a man than a man can.