The Urgency of Life
Project statement
The urge of taking these pictures comes from one major thing that I feel in me, an extreme moral obligation to capture an individual that is in a critical or transitional phase in their life. During three summers that I was spending photographing my friends I realized that most of them where experiencing what I was constantly looking for, the passage from being a teenager to become a real adult was so strong in them that this affected me profoundly, because using my camera I would isolate myself from them but at the same time, realize what they were going through. I am at the same age they were when I took the photos and with great fear I feel that nothing is changed in me, I’m just older. Their faces in the pictures tell me that I didn’t experience my personal passage and I know now, it’s too late to try to catch it back and live it.
