Feminine Transitions: A Photographic Celebration of Natural Beauty

For women, aging brings with it an inner grace and beauty that is more than skin deep. From birth to old age, women transition through many physical, psychological, and emotional phases that are recorded on their faces. Never before has a book so vividly projected the images of women in all stages of life in a way that reveals who they really are as women. Feminine Transitions: A Photographic Celebration of Natural Beauty is a refreshing and inspiring, full-color book of photography. Its pages present a series of portraits that reveal the elegance and subtly honest beauty of female faces between the ages of 7 weeks and 103 years. The portraits are accompanied by a quote from each models within the book. Author and photographer Alyscia Cunningham has truly unmasked the natural beauty of aging. The process of photographing the portraits for the book turned out to be a transition for Alyscia. "I simply wanted to put together a body of work that fosters a woman's love for herself and encourages women to believe in their own beauty, despite the signs of aging," says Alyscia. "But as I looked through my lens, I couldn't see the women. All I could see was their makeup. Their masks." Alyscia then made the decision that all of her subjects remove their makeup for their portraits. That was when the book project really took shape. The importance of a woman's "natural" beauty took center stage. Feminine Transitions unmasks women and exquisitely demonstrates that young is beautiful, old is beautiful, and natural is beautiful. 5% of sales proceeds will be donated to girl/women empowerment organizations.