Stuck
My
portraits represent a small circle of friends I grew up with living
in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. At the moment they are lost souls; many of
them don't go to or haven't been to college, a few never finished
high school, work dead end jobs or are unemployed, and live with
their parents. Most of them have been through traumatic experiences
recently: losing loved ones or finding out others are sick or dying.
Many have developed addictions or mental health issues. These
portraits are of a class of people that I believe exists almost
everywhere; the kids who get stuck when it's time to become an adult
but they just don't know how, and life's problems end up bogging them
down. These portraits focus on exploring my changing relationships
with the people who are closest to me and simultaneously documents
their struggles being the youth population in a small town with a
bleak future. With this series I hope to reach our generation as a
whole, sending them the message that the obstacles that life presents
us with don't have to destroy us unless we allow them to.
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