A photographer is hitting out at negative body image with an incredibly raw, unique nude photo series done with a large female model.

Swedish photographer Julia SH has presented a series of gritty, abstract images for a project simply called +, featuring an unnamed model who previously captured the artist's imagination during a visual effects shoot.

'She was amazing to work with, and very confident in the way she looked,' Julia told Vice about the anonymous woman.

Unique look: Swedish photographer Julia SH enlisted the help of a large, unnamed female model took create a photo series simply dubbed +

Catching the eye: Julia encountered the woman on a visual effects shoot and was taken by the way she was 'very confident in the way she looked'

After that initial encounter, Julia approached her for her own work, and went about snapping the woman in positions that deliberately left out her head and face to 'disorient the viewer a bit and attempt to halt them from making an immediate value judgment by comparing her to the way other people look'.

The images, all of the single, nude woman, see her bent forward with fingers on the floor, one leg raised in the air, or kneeling with a greatly-arched back.

Another shows the woman from the side in a lunge position, revealing a tattoo of wings on her back, but hiding her head in a way that is confusing to the viewer.

The snapper: Julia (pictured) claims she is more interested in textures and shapes than in nudity

In living color: The photos are shot in the least forgiving light, showing every mark, roll and dimple on the woman's body

Every shot is taken in a light that exposes each and every texture of the woman's body in startling color, whether that be cellulite, stretch marks or freckled skin.

Julia hopes that the shoot will challenge views about beauty by displaying the woman's unique body as a 'sculpture and a work of art' rather than as something sexualized.

The photographer, who cites the films of David Cronenberg as an inspiration for her imagery, claims she is more interested in 'textures and geometry' over nudity itself.

Changing perceptions: Julia hopes that the series will help people see nude bodies as something other than sexual by presenting it as a work of art

'I remember watching a foreign film with some American acquaintances, and there was a scene where an older guy with a bit of paunch got naked to take a shower, and their reaction was basically, "ew! gross!"' she explained.

'I think this arises from the idea that we’re supposed to evaluate every naked body we see sexually.'

This, she believes, is a very American idea, whereas in Sweden, nudity is not seen in the same way. The American way of looking at is, she said, 'is incredibly harmful' and leads to body-shaming.

With her work, Julia hopes to rubbish the idea that a single body type is the only one that is attractive and in doing so help others become more comfortable with their own naked bodies.