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the trips filled with love & signs

International Women’s Day is a strange holiday.

On that day, suddenly everyone remembers that women exist. Tulips from the supermarket appear, quick wishes sent in messages, and phrases like: “best wishes to all the ladies.”

As if a woman were one category. One version.

One flower wrapped in cellophane.

But I look at women a little differently. Maybe because I often look through a camera lens.

On the street, women are real. One carries heavy bags and talks on the phone, another smokes a cigarette as if it were a moment of freedom, a third stands at a bus stop and looks somewhere very far away — as if she were in a completely different world.

Some are tired.

Some are beautiful in a way that cannot be planned.

Some have something in their eyes that says: “I’ve lived more than you think.”

And that is femininity to me.

Not Instagram.

Not perfect makeup.

Not slogans about women’s strength.

Just life.

A woman can put everything in order one day, and the next day quietly fall apart and still keep going. She can get on a plane, change her life, start again.

And the most interesting thing is — she often does it without big declarations.

She simply walks forward.

That’s why Women’s Day amuses me a little.

Because women don’t need one day a year.

They have a whole life.

Sometimes chaotic.

Sometimes beautiful.

Sometimes completely impossible to understand.

But real.

And maybe that’s why I like photographing women on the street.

Because in their faces there is everything: strength, exhaustion, irony, hope.

And none of them looks like a Women’s Day advertisement.

Thankfully.

                                                                           Bella Argazam

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