This striking photograph from Alexander Khokhlov’s “2D or not 2D” series looks like it could be an illustration of a woman in a comic book.  Surprisingly, it is an actual model (her name is Ekaterina Ashikhmina) with her face and hair painted by make-up artist Valeriya Kutsan.  This photographic series was selected as one of the “Top Russian Projects of 2013” by Designcollector.

The video below shows some scenes of the actual face painting and post-production taking place on this model and others from this photographic series.

(via Alexander Khokhlov)

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