Jugendliche Mädchenzimmer weltweit: „A Girl and her Room“ von Rania Matar

Als Vater einer pubertierenden Tochter, weiß ich um die Eigenheiten, die ihr Zimmer hin und wieder entwickelt. Diese tolle Fotoserie von Rania Matar zeigt, was wir alle wissen; das eben alle Zimmer aller jungen Frauen in der Welt diese Eigenheiten entwickeln. Die der jungen Männer natürlich auch, aber die hat Rania Matar nicht fotografiert.

Für diese Serie besuchte Matar Mädchen in der ganzen Welt.

This project is about teenage girls and young women at a transitional time of their lives, alone in the privacy of their own personal space and surroundings: their bedroom, a womb within the outside world.

As a mother of a teenage daughter I watch her passage from girlhood into adulthood, fascinated with the transformation taking place, the adult personality shaping up and a self-consciousness now replacing the carefree world she had known and lived in so far. I started photographing her and her girlfriends, and quickly realized that they were very aware of each other’s presence, and that their being in a group affected very much whom they were portraying to the world. From there, emerged the idea of photographing each girl alone in her personal space.

(via Inspirefirst)