After years of suffering from first hand experience, Peter DeVito wants to end the stigma surrounding spots and prove that acne can be beautiful.
. Sick and tired of the photoshopped perfection that has long permeated just about everything, Peter has taken it upon himself to turn fashion photography on its head. Instead of blurring out blemishes, for the last year or so Peter has been bolstering them in his close up, unretouched portraits of people with acne, accompanied by empowering slogans like"acne is normal" and “love yourself” sprawled across each subject’s face.
Having suffered from acne all his life, Peter knows firsthand the stigma attached to having bad skin. In fact, up until recently, he couldn’t even share a photo of himself online without photoshopping it first. Now he’s basing his entire career on doing the precise opposite. “I’d been seeing a lot of posts about body positivity and self acceptance on social media but there was a lack of visibility for people with acne,” he tells i-D. “So I wanted to create posts for them.
The plan was originally to take unretouched portraits of other people, but what kind of message would he be putting out there if he couldn’t take unretouched portraits of himself? So he decided to take the plunge, photograph himself and share it with the world. The post spread like wildfire, in no small part due to Cara Delevingne regramming it. “It's so wrong that if I had taken that picture of myself, then I wouldn't have posted it,” wrote the model.
“Society conditions everyone to believe that they need to have perfectly clear, poreless skin all the time,” says Peter. “Just look at the majority of magazines or advertisements and commercials, they only talk about how to get rid of acne, they never reassure you that it’s normal to get it. This causes people to devalue their self-worth. It’s the same with retouching, it conditions society to create unrealistic beauty standards.
Recently, however, Peter has begun to notice a shift in how we view, and how we represent people with acne. “Seeing Justin Bieber come out and say, “Pimples are cool” was really interesting,” he says, “because I remember when he was younger and used to do those Proactive commercials. I’ve definitely seen a change for the better. When I was younger, fashion images caused me to have a warped sense of beauty.
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