Tag Archives: Photography
Marc Vallée: Dissident Youth
May 1, 2012 — by
Documentary photographer Marc Vallée has a soft spot for outsider dissident youth. Over the course of his career his sensitive and beautiful portraits of youth have evolved from subculture to political resistance, and everything in between. Director Matt Wolf talked to Marc about his inspiring work.
Sk8r Boys
April 26, 2012 — by
Parents just don’t understand skateboarders. Photographer Ryan Young documents skaters traveling across America in search of unexpected places to ride, from subdivisions to seaside half pipes.
My Daguerreotype Teenager
April 20, 2012 — by
The daguerrotype was the first commercially successful photographic process that immortalized many types at the turn of the century. Here’s a collection of young students, posed stiff and smile-less for the camera in 1840. And if you don’t get the title reference check out My Daguerreotype Boyfriend—handsome young daguerreotypes.
Good Rats
April 11, 2012 — by
Photographer and filmmaker Niall O’Brien spent three years on and off living alongside a group of young punks from South-West London. In that time he watched them grow from adolescents to young men. Exhibited at Art Work Space in London, 2010.
“There’s something beautiful about capturing the spontaneity of youth. It’s something everyone can relate to on some level, even if they can’t immediately identify with this mad group of punks..”
via Tell/You/Today
Petra Collins’ High School Dream
April 6, 2012 — by
It’s hard to imagine Petra Collins actually went through puberty when you see her, now at 19 years old being the confident, rad chick that she is. But the first time Petra Collins starting shooting her photographs, she was just beginning high school. Today, this Toronto resident continues her passion for photography, only under the bylines of everyone from Vogue Italia to being a staff photographer at Rookie, a magazine started by fellow teen wunderkind, Tavi Gevinson, to even starting her own online female art collective, The Ardorous. Still, it seems there is much cross-over between her high school days and her current work. I want to live in the world that she creates in her photosets; all of Petra’s film look like they were dipped in candy or magic, but still manage to project the imperfections and insecurities that make-up teenagerdom. I recently e-interviewed Petra about some her high school musings.
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