This is just a humble effort of a fashion photographer to help bring recognition to the extraordinary, but sometimes overlooked qualities of beauty that make up a face behind the painted eyes and dusted cheeks.

“I grew up in a family that held the belief that religion is a personal relation of a cultural expression, and wanted to embrace the community that embraced them. When we lived in Shipshewana (Indiana), we went to a Mennonite church; and in India, we went to temple.”—Pratima Anae

I grew up in Canada, but spent my early childhood in Grenoble, France, a beautiful city at the foothills of the French Alps.