The series CURVES aims to break stereotypes and is my way of protesting the pressure of society to achieve their ideas of beauty and perfection. These photographs, at first glance, may seem like a stretch image created in Photoshop, but I use water in the process, and because of its movements, faces and shapes are distorted, and new forms are created.

The idea behind the series departs from the concept of symmetry, which most people judge as the ruler of beauty. Symmetry and proportion. Through these images, shot while me being underwater, I wish to show beauty from a different point of view.

-       Michal Zahornacky