Noroc says she sometimes only has 30 seconds to take a picture of an interesting woman she meets on the street. At other times she spends an hour with her subjects.

It helps that she can speak five languages, she says. She tries to talk a lot whenever she's photographing the women to make them feel proud, special and unique.

Fans and critics alike have asked why Noroc doesn't capture men on her travels. She says: "This is a personal project about women. I'm sure there are great photographers that can do a similar project about men, much better than me."

"My goal is to continue and take photos of women from each country of the globe, showing that beauty is in our differences" she writes on Bored Panda.

In Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, an isolated region of Tajikistan:

“We are all beautiful because we are different.” Photographer captures the many faces of women around the world