Love Me reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty. The project explores how a new form of globalization is taking place, where an increasingly narrow Western beauty ideal is being exported around the world like a crude universal brand.

The project spans five years, and involves photography in 17 countries across five continents.

Image: Katie, age 9.
Winner. Universal Royalty Texas State Pageant.
Texas, USA.