Comets

It's a teen-focused photo series capturing generational shifts and young womanhood perspectives nowadays

“Comets” is a series focused on teenagers and young women. I always took portraits of young girls while traveling but since COVID-19 I decided to give a structure to this ongoing project, starting from my home country, Italy, mainly in the suburban areas, and bringing a complete vision of what it means nowadays to be a young woman. I usually met these girls in the streets, and in shopping malls, I spoke to them, interviewed them, and then portrayed them. The interesting thing for me is to see how generations change in relationships with society, but also how the place where we grew up changes the perspectives we have on our lives and the future. This journey for me is a sort of survey of the new generations of girls who live their youth in a very complicated world, to understand if and where they find the strength and the tools to realize their dreams.