Portraits

Art & Photography

10 photographers explore what it’s like to be a teenager

Love, lust, angst, rioting, and an end of innocence: we revisit photo projects documenting the trials of adolescence

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Mar 22, 2024

Emily Dinsdale

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Constanze Han, The Betel Nut Beauties (Bing Lang Xi Shi)

In pictures: the controversial ‘betel nut beauties’ of Taiwan

Constanze Han’s photo project explores and documents an ‘intimate, peculiar’ aspect of Taiwanese culture which has obsessed her since childhood

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Mar 11, 2024

Madeleine Pollard

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In pictures: the faces of America’s young travelling community

For over a decade, Michael Joseph has documented the young Americans riding the rails as part of this largely overlooked subculture

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Mar 08, 2024

Emily Dinsdale

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In photos: Barcelona’s ‘daring and ecstatic’ queer Latinx club night

Ahead of its London iteration, we look through photographer Manuel Cardozo’s portraits from Latineo – the queer Latinx party founded in a spirit of radical inclusivity

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Mar 05, 2024

Isabella Fox Arias

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In photos: 6 young Ukrainian creatives on life in Kyiv

Photographer Marcus Lister’s ongoing project shares the stories of young Ukrainian artists, drag queens, DJs, and dancers making art and organising festivals, raves, and balls during wartime

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Mar 01, 2024

Emily Dinsdale

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Alessandra Sanguinetti on documenting over two decades of friendship

We talk to the acclaimed photographer about The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, which traces the lives of two young Argentinian women as they move through adolescence into adulthood

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Feb 28, 2024

Ashleigh Kane

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Telling portraits of young men trapped inside a Spanish detention centre

Felipe Romero Beltrán’s Dialect series portrays three years in the lives of a group of Moroccan men in the custody of the Spanish state

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Feb 21, 2024

Ashleigh Kane

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Dean Davies and James Perolls, Lost and Found (2024)

These photos are an ode to girlhood, friendship and Y2K fashion

As a love letter to the people they grew up with, Dean Davies and James Perolls document the life, times and style of a group of friends coming of age in the 00s

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Feb 19, 2024

Ayla Angelos

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Eva Stibbe Nunney, Heaven Is Other People (2024)

Surreal photos that celebrate the joy of self expression

Inspired by the likes of Leigh Bowery, Lady Godiva, and the new romantics, Eva Stibbe Nunney’s photo series features portraits of friends, family, and people from dating apps flaunting their secret selves

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Feb 08, 2024

Zara Afthab

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These photos document a Parisian teenager’s coming-of-age

‘I’m touched by a specific time of youth, which I call the ‘last summer’’: Photographer Elise Toïdé’s ongoing project Gabrielle captures the life of one girl growing up in Paris

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Feb 07, 2024

Emily Dinsdale

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James Pearson-Howes, Taller the Hat, Closer to Heaven

In photos: inside LA’s thriving Mexican-American rodeo dance scene

In his new series, photographer James Pearson-Howes documents the distinct style and culture of Mexican-American teens on the ‘quebradita’ dance scene

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Jan 31, 2024

Madeleine Pollard

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Paul Mpagi Sepuya, “Daylight Studio Model Study (0X5A2323)”

Paul Mpagi Sepuya reflects on his cerebral yet erotic photography

Ahead of the opening of Exposure – his upcoming major exhibition – we talk to the artist about his self-reflexive photography practice

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Jan 25, 2024

Patrick Sproull

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In photos: one photographer’s vision of Zürich’s underground youth culture

Noah Noyan Wenzinger’s photo book Noyan 2015-2022 chronicles everyday scenes and ‘coming-of-age situations’ in the Swiss city

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Jan 23, 2024

Emily Dinsdale

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This photo book reframes nudes from vintage XXX magazines

In her new photo book Centrefold, artist Carly Ries repurposes hardcore and softcore magazine shoots from the 70s and 80s to examine objectivity and subjectivity in nude portraiture

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Jan 18, 2024

Sara Quattrocchi Febles

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