Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru, and lives and works in San Jose and Philadelphia, United States. Her recent photographic work is a conspicuous exploration of sensual surfaces in which the body is deliberately confused with nature and nature with the body.

Singer Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson of the Black Eyed Peas appears with her wax figure after it was unveiled at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas at The Venetian September 22, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

A customer grimaces in pain as she gets a tattoo on her arm at the 21st International Tattoo Convention Berlin on December 3, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The annual tattoo trade fair runs from December 2–4, 2011. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Female panda Tian Tian makes her first appearance in front of the media since arriving from China on December 12, 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)

Triumph International's lingere set of bra and underwear come with a lock attached to the shorts and a key for the woman to give the key to her beloved on November 24, 2004 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images)

Dinara Safina of Russia hits a backhand in her match against Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain during the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden on March 10, 2011 in Indian Wells, California.

Gulparai, 12, (L) smokes heroin along side her mother Sabera and brother Zaher, 14, (R) August 27, 2007 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Carine Louis-Jean, 22, poses for a photograph in her destroyed house after Hurricane Matthew hit Jeremie, Haiti, October 17, 2016. “The roof of my house is completely gone and some of walls were destroyed. I have lost everything I had, but I thank God that I have a friend who is letting me stay at her house. I could say I'm lucky, because none of my family died during the hurricane, but I do not think I'm lucky”, said Louis-Jean. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)