Portrait nominee

LIMEN is a Latin word that means 'threshold', something that marks a passage between two different spaces. It also describe the beginning of a new state, entering something that is still unknown.

Boys and girls aged between 11 and 14 years old experience the metamorphosis from childhood to adolescence, developing with puberty a new physical appearance (which may look both promising and unsettling), and building their own personal vision of the world.

In this phase the naivety of the tender age is gradually abandoned, the bond with parents is more and more loose and a process of elaboration takes place, leading them to a new identity and anticipating their future life as young adults.

These pictures aim to capture this instant of revelation, the faint awareness of independence and the discovery of a private internal space.

Francesca Cesari is a freelance photographer based in Bologna, Italy.

With an academic background in Art History, she started as a self-taught photographer and then perfected her skills with a Diploma in Professional Photographic Practice at the London College of Communication.

Her artistic research focuses on people, mostly photographed in interiors with natural light.
The projects she leads mostly concentrate on family, motherhood and human relationships.

Francesca has exhibited in several solo and collective exhibitions and her work has been featured in different magazines and web magazines (GUP magazine, CNN Photo Blog, Behold –Slate’s Photo Blog, Fotografia Magazine, Private - Photo Review, Landscape Stories); she got some Honourable Mentions at the Family of Man Competition 2016, Moscow Photo Awards MIFA 2016 and International Photography Awards IPA 2015 and 2016.

Francesca is a contributor of Luz Photo Agency http://luz.it/authors/francesca-cesari