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Nose Job

Nose Job

Nose Job, 1992

‘Nose Job’ started off as an exercise in facial retouching that got a little out of hand, and ended up winning an Ilford award for Electronic Imaging in 1994. During the process, I wondered what it would look like if the subject’s nose were connected to her jawline. After inserting a spectacular sky in the background, it looked amazing, but I was still nervous when presenting it to the model, because I wasn’t sure how she would take it. But she laughed, and said she was going to send it to her boyfriend and tell him that she had a nose job. Hence the title.