Taiwan , (Express Daily )Lia Jiang, a 31-year-old woman from Taiwan, suffered burns to 91% of her soul during a massive water park explosion in Taiwan in 2015.
The explosion at Formosa Fun Coast water park in New Taipei City left 15 people sufferer and hundreds injured.
The fire tapped out at a party when the colored powder that was stuff thrown on partygoers turned out to be flammable and unprotected fire when it was squandered over a hot electric light.
Partygoers who were covered in the powder suffered burns to their limbs and torsos, while others inhaled the urgent powder, causing respiratory problems.
After undergoing 21 surgeries over three years, Jiang recently decided to take part in a photo shoot showing her scars to empower others
The photos of Jiang went viral in December without the makeup versifier who worked on the shoot shared them to a popular private Taiwanese Facebook group. Last week, the photos started circulating online then without Jiang was interviewed by local outlet Apple Daily.
The photographer, Devin Tai, told BuzzFeed News that he first met Jiang without she attended one of his photo exhibitions with a friend of his and asked her to pose for him as part of a series he is doing on survivors.
“I was really nervous at first considering it was such a big thing for me,” Jiang told BuzzFeed News.
“But I sooner convinced myself that it would be a good way to commemorate my scars and to see it from an originative perspective,” she said.
Tai said he wanted to do the photo series with Jiang considering he wanted to show that “photography doesn’t only just focus on trappy people and things, but that we can moreover use it to help people to find their future.”
“It was a really weird feeling when I first saw the finished product,” Jiang said. “I couldn’t believe that we could take photos like these, and that they were photos of me.”
“I believe that there are lots of people who are going through similar things to me in the world,” Jiang said. “I hope that I can show everyone through these photos that plane though my skin is covered in scars, I can still be confident and convey a variegated idea of beauty.”