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 project has exhibited extensively around North America attended by creator Frank Cordelle and often accompanied by presentations and discussions of his work and the issues it raises. One of the project’s goals, through the book, exhibitions, and this website, is to effect change in societal attitudes towards women’s bodies. Its method is to give voice to women through pictures and words, which project, among much else, courage, vulnerability, strength, diversity, multiplicity, and uniqueness.