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I learned about this from my boyfriend who goes to UNCW. The Century Project is an amazing work by Frank Cordelle that is touring the country.

It recently came to UNCW for the second time, when school administrators decided that it needed to be censored and certain photographs-banned.

Image from "The Seahawk" UNCW publication.

Here's a snipet from the project's website: "More than a hundred girls and women of many ages, shapes, sizes, and backgrounds bare all in Frank Cordelle’s The Century Project. The project combines unconventionally stunning nude portraits with highly personal written statements describing instances of rape, debilitating illness, disfiguring surgeries, distorted social expectations, as well as reflections of humor and joy."

The pictures are beautiful and painful and the stories even more so. When it comes to wonder, I think these photos and stories are awe-inspiring. If you define the feeling of wonder as being changed after the experience, this is it. If you have tissues handy, check out the website that's linked at the top of the page "The Century Project."