Clients pose for a photo session in either their home or in Turk's Brooklyn apartment.

"I try to get at what's special, and everyone has got special," says Turk.

Many of Turk's clients have intense feelings of loathing their body; some have eating disorders; others have been sexual abused. Ana herself was the victim of sexual abuse.

"When they see the images of themselves, they look different," Turk says. "Then they start to look at the ones that are pleasing, and they start to see their loss of perception."

photo courtesy of Ellen Fisher Turk

Women with pose for Turk's camera with hopes of accepting their own bodies.

Turk charges $450 per session, which pays for the film, processing and printing and one photo shoot that lasts about three hours.

Ana admits she hated the photos at first.

"When I first saw the pictures, I went crazy," she says. "But it was like a road accident. I couldn’t stop looking and then finally I got used to seeing what I thought was ugly. I got desensitized to it."