Miss Landmine is an alternative beauty contest mixed with political statement dreamed up by the Norwegian artist Morten Traavik, in which 10 Angolan women injured by mines model specially adapted clothes and prosthetic limbs.
The project currently exists as a website, but the plan is to create "a fashion magazine in the style of Elle, Vogue and Cosmopolitan" to showcase the contest.
Angola was chosen over other potential countries, such as Afghanistan or Cambodia, because it has "a relaxed and open attitude to physicality and sensuality", the organisers say.
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