02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril
02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Photographs: Laia Abril

Publisher: Self published

46 pages

Pictures: 80

Year: 2012

ISBN: 978.84.15574.55.2

Comments: Stapled softcover, 307x217 mm, full color offset, unfolded pages .Edition consulting: Cristina de Middel and Silvia Omedes. edition of 500 copies. In very good condition.

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On Eating Disorders, Chapter Two: Thinspiration

The Pro-ana community has turned anorexia (Ana) into its dogma. They venerate the illness giving meaning to their totalitarian “lifestyle”. It’s a virtual reality where they state commandments, share motivating tricks and exchange hundreds of images of thin models via their blogs. They have created Thinspiration, a visual new language - obsessively consumed to keep on wrestling with the scales day after day.

Now, they evolved interacting with their cameras portraying their bony clavicles or flat bellies; or consuming extreme anorexic images, the Pro-ana have made Thinspirationevolve. I re-take their self-portraits, photographing and reinterpreting their images from the screen, resulting the visual response to the bond between obsession and self-destruction; the disappearance of one’s own identity. The project is a personal and introspective journey across the nature of obsessive desire and the limits of auto-destruction, denouncing disease’s new risk factors: social networks and photography.


Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

Laia Abril,02) Thinspiration (must not eat)

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