Yufan Lu: Make Me Beautiful

Haunted by beauty: a photographic meditation on the phenomenon of cosmetic surgery Published with Ediciones Posibles/Phree/PSV. Chinese photographer Yufan Lu (born 1991) investigates the prevalence of and motivations behind cosmetic surgery through a series of photocollages of convalescing patients. Lu describes her work as “death masks,” halting images stuck between hope and insecurity, determination and sacrifice.