She traveled overland from her native Bucharest up to the Arctic, thence through Russia and China ... are an epic map of Himalayan culture and life: beauty this mountain-tough cannot be stamped ...

Mirzoeva was put on the map -- specifically, the so-called Atlas Of Beauty-- by Romanian photographer ... including the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the region.

One Romanian photographer backpacked around the world for two years to explore the diversity of beauty. Mihaela Noroc's project is called "The Atlas of Beauty." She traveled to 37 countries and ...

Since then, she has visited every continent except for Antarctica and a total of about 50 countries, photographing hundreds of women along the way for her project, dubbed Atlas of Beauty.

Called "The Atlas of Beauty," the project is a collection of portraits of the women Noroc met in her travels and is an attempt to show that "beauty is everywhere." "It's not a matter of cosmetics ...