A Girl and Her Room
As a mother of a teenage daughter, I have been watching her passage from girlhood into adulthood, and am fascinated with the transformation taking place. Her adult personality is shaping up, with a developing insecurity and self-consciousness that is replacing the carefree world she has lived in so far. I realized that she was truly herself in her room, when she was alone in her own private and personalized space, away from the pressure of fitting in and performing.
From there, emerged the idea of photographing teenage girls alone in their rooms, an area that they control, decorate, trash and be themselves in. Those rooms reflected the girls’ personalities. I spent quite a bit of time with each girl, so she was fully comfortable with me and able to let down her guards and be herself. I was fascinated to discover a person on the cusp on becoming an adult, but desperately holding on to the child she just barely left behind, a person on the edge between two worlds. Posters of rock stars were often displayed above a bed still covered with stuffed animals; mirrors were heavily decorated and always an important part of the room, a reflection of the girls’ image to the outside world.
This project is in progress. I would like to combine images of girls in their rooms from different part of the world, especially the worlds I have access to, mainly the Middle East, Europe and the US.
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