In 2021 I have captured twenty-one young souls between January and April, eager to see how they were holding up, after Germany reinstated its second lockdown on December 16th 2020. Since then once again schools have been shut down, and contact is only allowed by one household plus one single person. In a good and healthy scenario being a teenager, means to be free, including making silly decisions sometimes!
Today, every careless contact, every unthought touch could have a consequence. So what happens to a young person when social life is simply put on hold? When school or university classes are being relocated to a screen in your room? When future plans or dreams get cancelled?
It was important for me to give our children a voice, and to capture a little glimpse of their wellbeing...
e.g.:
TYRON, 16
:
»We are sixteen/seventeen, and those are the best years of one’s time as a teenager. I feel that before that you can’t do so much, and afterwards you are already grown up. What I have learned is that time can pass quickly. So you realize that you must treasure time more.«
Talie, 14
Tyron, 16
Ava, 17
Neomi, 16
Leonard,17
