GROWN UP
The Party Is Over
(Conceptual Image Series of 12 staged photographs, 2016)
Pressure to perform, uncertainty of the future, lack of prospects – when young people grow up, the anxieties, of which they were given a foretaste in school, continue on an even larger scale afterwards. Policies, economy and society overload and crush the adolescents with their one-dimensional demands for increased performance and economic growth. Being (or pretending to be) happy on the surface, many of them struggle with fears about the unforeseeable future on the inside.
Based on this observation, the image series at hand tries to visualise the experience of young adults by means of staged symbolic photographs. Both the feeling of hopelessness and the comprehensible wish for light-heartedness is depicted in a pointed manner.
Grown Up (1/12) – When Words Disperse Water
Grown Up (3/12) – See The Light
Grown Up (3/12) – The Confetti Shooter
Grown Up (4/12) – Can I Back Out?
Grown Up (5/12) – No Swing, No Tango!
Grown Up (6/12) – Fairytale Shack Is Closed
Grown Up (7/12) – Hello, Anybody There?
Grown Up (8/12) – Keep Dancing – It’s Worth A Try!
Grown Up (9/12) – The Resignation
Grown Up (10/12) – Racing Dive
GROWN UP (11/12) – Down-To-Earth
Grown Up (12/12) – Prospects – Stare Into The Future