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newyorker:

Look at Me: Photographing Female Adolescence

“It is the time when there is still an awkward awareness that they are being watched, but there is also a willingness to reveal something of themselves or the person they are trying to be.” Tealia Ellis Ritter, on photographing female adolescence: http://nyr.kr/yR3kpB

Photograph 1: Tealia Ellis Ritter, “Olivia (The Live Creature and Ethereal Things),” 2009. Courtesy the artist.

Photograph 2: Michael Spano, “Eye and Mirror Portrait,” 1984. Courtesy of the artist.