Photographer shares nude photos of an elderly interracial couple in their 70s

 Photographer Jade Beall is known for her candid and unedited nude photos of men and women of all ages, races and sizes. Her new portraits of a nude couple in their 70s which are part of her new series showcasing the bodies of people who are over the age of 60, have taken the internet by storm.



Thousands admire the way the images perfectly captures the remarkable love they have for each other. Gerry and Darwin, who have been in love for more than 20 years, proudly leave their wrinkles and sagging skin on display as they hold each other in the heartwarming images meant to inspire self-love and challenge society's definitions of beauty.Speaking against critics of anything nude, she wrote,

"I refuse to accept the wide spread (mostly Western) human belief system in regards to what is beautiful, especially when it comes to the sacred vessel we call our body. Why do we accept to believe that one thing must be more beautiful than another? Why cannot we embrace a million-billion definitions of beautiful? The divine: skin that drapes, stretches, sags, wrinkles, burns and rebuilds like spiraling Fibonacci across our fragile and strong bones made from the same stuff as the stars all combining to create this phenomenon that comes to life for a short amount of time that we call... bodies. 

Many from my human tribe and other humans who wish to sell me things "that will hide the evidence that I am growing older" tell me that as I grow older, I am worth less and less and that elder bodies are anything but beautiful. These elder bodies: the temples to decades of wisdom, heartbreak, strength, failure, triumph, THRIVING. How, I wonder, could they be anything but beautiful? I am starting a new series on beloveds over 60 because I wish to be free from the imposed beliefs."

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