Adolescence is a complex and sensitive age when teenage girls especially start seeing themselves in the context of society and start questioning their identity. It marks a time of important physical and psychological change. It is both a time of unease and expectation, as well as of freedom.                   In my images I try to capture this change. I cast girls who are not professional models and whom I don’t know, then place them in an unfamiliar environment, and ask them to pose in a certain way. This results in a slight awkwardness that I consider is a part of being a teenager. However, as the shoot develops, the girls become more confident and their faces begin to reveal a composite of childlike and adult expressions, which I find fascinating.

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