2025 Nyland Prize Catalogue

18 | She faded perfectly | Aurelie Beeston | $500 | B&W papers, beauty products & negative. Sun exposed, scanned, digitally layered.

How should we see women as we age? We are sold beauty routines that damage our mental health. I applied beauty products on photo paper to reflect on this erasure of self. The original image is unfixed. It’ll slowly fade as it is exposed to light, just as older women are erased from representation. Let’s change this & celebrate the beauty of aging.