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Melbourne Muslim Wedding Photographer: A Melting Pot of Love
Melbourne is a lively, cosmopolitan city with a wide variety of customs and events that Muslim wedding photographers are crucial to documenting. Melbourne is a cultural hub where people congregate to celebrate the union of two souls in marriage because of its diverse range of customs and beliefs. Under the leadership of Shaadi Capture, preserving these priceless moments turns becomes a mission to honour the diversity and beauty of love in Melbourne's multicultural mosaic, rather than just a service.
Islamic Marriages' Significance
Muslim weddings in Melbourne are a stunning blend of customs, rituals, and familial relationships. From the colorful Mehndi ceremony to the solemn Nikah, every aspect of a Muslim wedding is full of deep symbolism. It is the duty of an accomplished wedding photographer to carefully and artistically record these moments on film for the benefit of future generations.
The Job of the Wedding Photographer
The duties of a Muslim wedding photographer extend far beyond simply taking images. They must possess in-depth understanding of cultural peculiarities, religious sensitivities, and family dynamics. Through their lens, the love, happiness, and emotional resonance of the occasion are retained.
Balancing Tradition and Modernity
A significant challenge facing Muslim wedding photographers in Melbourne is balancing tradition and modernity. They must adjust to changing fads and tastes while simultaneously honoring long-standing norms and rituals. This calls for a blend of technical skill, creative flair, and cultural awareness.
Gathering the Happiness of the Festivity
Muslim weddings occur in a range of locations throughout Melbourne's multicultural terrain, from opulent banquet halls to private garden celebrations. Every location offers a different set of advantages and difficulties for wedding photographers. Meticulous attention to detail is essential when attempting to portray the elegance of a grand reception or the rustic beauty of an outdoor event.
Using the Architectural Design of Melbourne
Muslim wedding photos are set against a gorgeous backdrop of the city's varied architectural styles. Melbourne has several beautiful spots for group photos and bridal portraits, ranging from modern skyscrapers to historic sites. An expert wedding photographer understands how to take use of these circumstances to produce compositions that are striking to look at.
Combination of Traditions and Cultures
The merging of cultures and customs is another feature that distinguishes Muslim marriages in Melbourne. Couples frequently combine aspects from their individual backgrounds to create a genuinely one-of-a-kind celebration. For a wedding photographer, this offers both chances and problems as they have to manage various cultural dynamics and make sure every moment is recorded true to life.
Communication's Significance
For a Muslim wedding photographer in Melbourne, communication is essential. Gaining an understanding of the couple's goals and expectations requires developing a relationship with them and their families. A more coherent and significant end product is produced when there is open communication between the photographer and subject, who can then anticipate important events and feelings.
Observing the Influence of Love
Seeing the strength of love transcend cultural barriers is one of the most fulfilling experiences for a Muslim wedding photographer in Melbourne. Weddings are a global celebration of commitment and bonding, regardless of culture or religion. By preserving these moments, photographers can contribute a tiny yet meaningful amount to the eternalization of romantic relationships.
In summary
Muslim wedding photography in melbourne is a delicate art that calls for a careful balancing act between technical mastery, cultural awareness, and creative vision. Photographers have the ability to capture the intricate web of love and custom that characterizes these festivities through their lens. As Melbourne continues to evolve as a multicultural hub, the role of the Muslim wedding photographer remains as vital as ever in capturing the beauty and diversity of love in all its forms.
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BOSS OF THE BUS
As we were making our way down the west coast on our 5 day trip, Genevieve was investigating trips from Side to Capadocia in the centre of Turkey. Correspondence went back and forth about a €40-50 (about $75-80) 3 day trip. Comparing what we were paying for our 5 days this was so cheap I feared we would be camping. But no this was the price. Of course the sting came a bit later.
So we were up for it and the 4 of us booked to start the tour on 12th June with pick up time 6.45am. Antique Side is closed to cars other than those of residents so the tour bus couldn’t come down the hill to collect all our luggage. Booking ‘agents’ advised the town electric cart would collect us but alas no. Meanwhile Chris was in negotiations with the police manning the gate but it was a firm No. With minutes ticking by Doug quickly got Penny’s car, luggage was loaded into that and driven to the bus.
Now about 30 minutes had elapsed so understandably got some stink-eye from the passengers who’d been kept waiting.
The bus was designed for 12 passengers but fitted out for 17 so it was a close and intimate affair. In the front 2 seats were Doug and Gene who it has to be said got lucky with some extra leg room. Behind them 2 elderly Danes who grabbed a bottle of wine and or beers at every possible opportunity. Behind the Danes were 10 year old Russian lad with his mousy mute mother. Then Chris and me wedged in (Russian lad had his seat reclined the entire 2 days), and behind us the very friendly and chatty Aunty Margaret and Tina from Essex. Along the back were sweet young newly weds Soyah & Maurice from Holland, a spare seat, then Holly, Tina’s stepsister who judging by her size would have been grateful for the spare seat. Could have knocked us over with a feather when she told us she had been to the 7 continents by age 24, had emigrated to Melbourne several years ago (lives in Chelsea)and works as a sound engineer. You just wouldn’t have picked it!
Then heading back along the bus in single seats was a surly young lad who turned out to be part of the tour operation, a woman of unknown origins who disappeared after day 1, then Mr Russia who seemed to have supplanted both his wife’s and his son’s ego into his own.
Bus driver slipped under the radar but the same can’t be said for the guide Nahjo. In fact it was a battle of egos between Nahjo and Mr Russia. He didn’t just like the sound of his own voice. He was addicted to it! Along the way amongst other chit chat and information we got his life story, some group marriage guidance, how small lies can be forgiven and how this works in a religious context too. Every monologue went for a minimum of 10 minutes and woe betide you should you chat amongst yourselves during one of his diatribes. In the gaps the gregarious, party-loving-club-going-40-something Tina would try to share with me her life history. Nahjo seemed to get wind of it and standing facing the back of the bus would either clear his throat or announce it was his turn. Chris and I were left thinking our polite and humble Gallipoli guide must have been absent for the Tour Guide Arrogance 101 unit of the qualification.
So we were off and despite the late get away we stopped not 20 minutes down the road for a tea/ coffee break, followed by a breakfast stop 40 minutes later at a petrol station/ roadside stop. (It has to be noted that Cappadocia is some 470 kilometres from Side so it was going to be long day if the stops came so frequently). Breakfast option 1 was a vast modern complex selling everything you don’t want to eat. Gene who has an eye for local food spotted hidden in a corner behind some trees an outfit selling gözleme so we headed there. Great decision. Shoes off and into the tent where the local lady sat crossed leg with her dough, tubs of filling and the black dome for cooking the gözleme. Spinach and cheese one was a bit dry but the potato one was outstanding.
All wedged ourselves back in the bus which climbed up the mountains through some magical scenery. Unfortunately Nahjo kept reassuring us on the wrong side of the bus that we would see it ‘on the back journey’. However our arrangements meant we weren’t doing ‘the back journey’ so at one particular stop he was a little annoyed when we headed off 200 metres down the road to photograph the nomads herding their goats. I suggested it would be better for all if the bus pulled over so we could all see anything of interest on the way to Cappadocia. Suggestion was not welcomed.
Another stop for coffee and the sting of the extra €’s. It had to happen of course. You can’t run a tour for €50 per person providing transport, 2 nights accommodation no matter how basic, 2 dinners and two breakfasts. So lunch which we though was fend for oneself turned out to be a set payment (we only paid for one and opted to take our chances on day 2), and extra for Whirling dervishes, museums (charge €25/ $39.20 versus ticket face value less than $9) etc totalling an extra €120 between us. Even taking that into consideration €220/$350 for both of us was pretty cheap and the overcharging on extras balanced the undercharging on initial outlay.
Next stop, lost count if it was 4 or 5, was at the Mevlâna museum Konya, the birth place of the Sufi religion and Dervishes. The site is a holy place for Muslims with over 1.5 million visiting it yearly. The Mosque contains the tomb of Rumi (unfortunately hidden due to renovations) later known as Mevlâna who devised the idea of whirling and the tombs of other eminent dervishes. Also on display were Mervlana’s coat, a box apparently containing his beard and any number of exquisitely decorated Qurans, one so tiny that the author went blind writing it.
Alongside the Mosque was a complex giving information about the dervish culture. Included was a lodge displaying mannequins dressed as they would have been in Mevlâna’s day and the dervish cells displaying various items. I for one would have enjoyed more than our tightly scheduled allotted time there. But we were rounded up like errant school children and headed back for the bus. Chris managed to ruffle Nahjo’s feathers by needing a toilet stop when we were warned the next section of the drive would be 2.5 hours. By this stage as it was 1pm we were wondering about the elusive lunch if the drive was for 2.5 hours. There was some grumbling from Tina and Aunty Margaret and it wasn’t from their stomachs.
Eventually we rolled into another vile modern roadside stop - our lunch venue. Behind the counter were some aggrieved (probably because of the lateness of the hour) gorillas of men slopping out an assortment of runny casseroles, reluctant to identify any ingredients. It tasted as bad as it looked. We were immediately pleased with the earlier decision not to commit to day two lunch.
A short drive and then time for another stop. This time it was to visit a preserved home dug under ground, a primitive more simple Coober Pedy affair. Apparently tunnel complexes formed entire cities but this was a small example taking only 10 minutes for everyone to get through. I opted out and instead waited near the entrance/ exit where a dozen or so middle aged women had set up a market. Trouble was they were all selling the same little local cloth dolls so competition to get any one walking by was frenetic. Females in particular were the target for the spruiking with a good natured but frantic cacophony of calls of “Mother, Mother”. The closer anyone ventured to the stall the louder the screeching got. I hope everyone managed to sell something but with another 5 weeks on the road, it wasn’t something I could buy.
Everyone back on the bus and off to Dervish show scheduled to start at 6pm. Clearly we were up against it as the previously cautious bus drive planted his foot. Arrived shortly after 6pm with another bus arriving after us. Having been so enchanted with the beautiful ceremony we saw at Hodjapasha in Istanbul Chris and I we were looking forward to a similar experience. Dougal and Gene had never seen them and had their expectations built up by us.
Oh dear!!! The pipe/flute player struggled to find a note, the dervishes all looked like novices (part time uni job perhaps), they wore slippers that made a noise that was distracting, one was losing his pants, also very distracting. There was a non dancing head honcho roaming around amongst them dressed in black once again distracting, they didn’t vary their speed and were for the best part out of sync. Yes they could spin but it lacked all the beauty, rhythm and charm of our previous experience. We left feeling glad to have seen a more authentic experience and Doug and Gene left feeling they were yet to see one.
Short drive to our delightfully self rated ‘Special Class’ hotel in Göreme, rooms allocated and orders that we had 15 minutes to get to dinner. Dinner a simple affair with lentil soup, the not-so-traditional-Turkish chicken schnitzel and melon. Danish couple of course knocked off another bottle of wine.
Gene, Chris and I headed for a stroll to town wandering through the streets. Highlight was at a hotel where I poked my head in and elderly Mehmet the owner insisted we come and look at his accommodation. Beautiful rooms that were huge with the bathrooms built into the rock giving a sense of a modern and upmarket Flinstone bathroom. With Mehmet’s limited English we spent a special half hour in the hotel’s courtyard trying and making a reasonable hash of having a meaningful conversation.
A long day and time for to return to our ‘Special Class’ Hotel Karl for bed, especially for Gene with a 4.30 am start for her hot air balloon flight over Cappadocia.
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Nature Meet the Young Female Photographers Who Documented 18-Year-Old Girls
Nature Meet the Young Female Photographers Who Documented 18-Year-Old Girls Nature Meet the Young Female Photographers Who Documented 18-Year-Old Girls https://ift.tt/2C9xjLF
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The New York Times asked 22 young women to take photos for a project exploring daily life for girls around the world who are becoming adults this year.
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Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale, Miss., visiting where she grew up.CreditCreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
TiKa Wallace is not your typical New York Times photographer.
She’s 17, competes in slam poetry events and describes herself as “an amalgamation of creative witticisms, music references and chocolate.” Raised by a single parent from a blue-collar background, this “young, queer, black girl” attends high school in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C.
She is, as she puts it, “a square peg in a round hole.”
She is also among 22 young women who took photos for the project “This is 18,” which documents girls around the world. And now she has been published in The New York Times, in a special section devoted to exploring what life looks like for girls turning 18 in 2018. The project goes online today and will appear in print next week.
“What surprised me is that a major news outlet that is consumed by millions of people all over the world is allowing teenagers to tell teenager stories,” she said. “Normally, when a story is told, especially for a major news outlet, it’s told by someone who’s 30 or 40 years old. It’s just seen from a different lens versus when your peers get to tell your story.”
Staff photographers for The New York Times usually have several years of professional experience at other news organizations, and even then, they usually have to wait awhile before they get to work on projects. But the visual journalists like Ms. Wallace whom we enlisted for this project were decidedly different. They were young women, mostly teenagers.
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Mahak Naiwal with her friends at her home in New Delhi.CreditShraddha Gupta for The New York Times
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Liana Sharifian, among few Iranian women who play the bagpipe (ney-anbān), and her friend Miad play folk music from southern Iran.CreditAtefe Moeini for The New York Times
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Maryclare Chinedo and her mother in the Bronx before departing for Brown University.CreditJulie Lozano/Bronx Documentary Center
Jessica Bennett, the paper’s gender editor, realized early on that the key to success for this project was going to be getting an authentic view of the lives of 18-year-old girls. She and Jodi Rudoren, associate managing editor for audience — in collaboration with a team of editors and designers in Styles — decided the best way to assure that authenticity of experience was to have teenage photographers take the pictures and conduct interviews.
The project, managed by Sharon Attia, a 23-year-old photographer herself, became less hierarchal because most of the young women also choose their subjects.
The team behind the project paired each photographer with a mentor to help them complete the assignment and to make it a learning experience.
We asked the photographers to find the girls, photograph and interview them, and make videos of their subjects, as well. Although the photographers were mostly in their late teens, they were asked to act like professionals. And they did.
So how do you find a couple dozen talented female teenage photographers from all over the world? Well, let’s say it takes a village — a global village. Sandra Stevenson, the project’s picture editor, and I relied on a global network of photographers, editors and teachers that we have compiled over decades.
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Lori’anne Bemba, center, with her sister and grandmother at a family wedding in Montreal, Canada.CreditAdele Foglia for The New York Times
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Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino at Bard College in New York.CreditTiKa Wallace for The New York Times
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Obdulia González González embroiders beside her artesanal craft stall in Zacatecas, Mexico.CreditJesse Mireles for The New York Times
The team decided not to take a set approach, but it did try to choose 18-year-old female subjects with various experiences from a variety of places. For the most part, it was an organic process, because it was led by the young women. And it was often an educational experience for the photographers, as Adèle Foglia, a 21-year-old photographer from Montreal, noted.
“What surprised me the most about this project was to realize how differently the world all experiences this transition to adulthood,” she said. “And also it pushed me to reflect on my own experience and to see how sometimes the world may be such an unwelcoming space for women who have dreams and the determination to realize those dreams.”
Many of the photographers felt empowered by the project and the opportunity to highlight their own concerns in their own communities.
Jessie Mirelas, 19, who grew up in Zacatecas, Mexico, has always been proud of living in “a diverse multicultural country with great architecture, great destinations and an exquisite gastronomy — a place where the peoples that preceded us remain alive.”
She photographed Obdulia González González, an 18-year-old who is part of the indigenous Wixárika people of northern Mexico. She helps her parents sell traditional crafts and hopes to attend college.
“I believe this project is important because it’s giving us a voice, an opportunity to tell our story not only just in Mexico, but to the world,” said Ms. Mirelas, who studies at the University of Veracruz and wants to become a journalist. “To be able to show the legacy and cultural heritage of our indigenous peoples who are often neglected or ignored.”
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Madison changes her son’s diaper.CreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
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Yasmine Malone photographing Madison as she looks through her journals and art.CreditChandler Griffin
Yasmine Malone, who turned 20 this month, grew up in Clarksdale, Miss., in the Mississippi Delta and is now a student at the University Of Mississippi in Oxford, majoring in English and political science. Using just the camera in her phone, she documented Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale.
“I saw much of my mom and sister in her when she spoke about these things, being that they have all experienced being a teen mom in poverty with limited resources,” she said. “The frequency of this story is where it’s power stems. Madison Justice is not alone in her struggle; plenty of teens deal with it. Their stories deserve to be told for not only the realness of it all, but for its humanity, perseverance and strength.”
When many think of the Delta, they think of “poverty, crime, gun violence and low health rates,” Ms. Malone said. She learned that “we all have a story worth telling” which, over time fosters hope in her community. “If we can find our common threads,” she said, “we’ll realize the gaps between us are not that big, and there is where real social change can happen.”
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Millie Landewee, a member of an all-girl skate crew in Melbourne, in her bedroom.CreditEremaya Albrecht for The New York Times
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Shama Ghosh with her sister-in-law’s baby.CreditTahia Farhin Haque for The New York Times.
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Wanjiku Gakuru in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi.CreditSarah Sunday Moses for The New York Times
Some of the young photographers already had a mentor, but for the others, we asked photographers in their country to take on the role. Sandra provided guidance on how to take photographs and monitored the progress of participants to keep them on track. For three months straight, she was like an air traffic controller on the day before Thanksgiving — with some of the pilots speaking languages she did not understand.
For many participants, the project was a crash course in documentary photography and filmmaking: Make wide shots so we can see where you are, and also details. Photograph them hanging out with both friends and family and in their rooms alone. And be sure to collect family photos. Oh, and make a video of them, too.
Ms. Bennett and Ms. Attia teamed up with editors from the Styles section and digital and print designers to curate all the material and present it as a zine.
At the beginning, each photographer was asked to find three different 18 year olds. We asked them to not choose their friends and to send us a brief bio of each subject and a few photos of them in their rooms. The team then chose one of those subjects for each photographer.
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Aleksandra Yuryeva with her younger sister and friend at a park in Moscow.CreditAnna Dermicheva for The New York Times
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Victory Chukwu and her mother prepare lunch in Lagos, Nigeria.CreditAmarachi Chukwuma for The New York Times
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Jung Eun Yang applies pigment to a mannequin. Her dream is to become a makeup artist.CreditDa Hyeon Kim for The New York Times
Sarah Sunday Moses, 19, hails from South Sudan but grew up in Kenya after her parents fled the instability in their country. She photographed Wanjiku Muthoni Gakuru, who is studying urban planning at the University of Nairobi. What impressed Ms. Moses “the most in doing the project was the amount of people that were required,” she said, and the complexity of the forms that we asked the photographers to fill out.
She hopes that readers see that “despite being from different parts of the world, we are still similar,” she said.
Some of the photographers documented young women who were similar to themselves, while others spent time in situations quite different from their own. Tahia Farhin Haque from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is studying biochemistry at North South University while also studying at a photography school. While she describes herself as a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab, she photographed Shama Ghosha, a young Hindu woman who lives with her husband in Chandpur and hopes to finish high school and become a teacher.
“I went there with my eyes shut and came back with my eyes open of an entirely different life of a girl that lived in a different state,” she said. “We must empathize with the world around us. And not take anything for granted.”
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Anndrine Lund and friends pack up their things during a rainstorm in Norway.CreditCelina Christoffersen for The New York Times
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Shenzhi Xu at her high school in Chengdu, China.CreditLuxi Yang for The New York Times
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James Estrin, the co-editor of Lens, joined The Times as a photographer in 1992 after years of freelancing for the newspaper and hundreds of other publications. @JamesEstrin
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The New York Times asked 22 young women to take photos for a project exploring daily life for girls around the world who are becoming adults this year.
Image
Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale, Miss., visiting where she grew up.CreditCreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
TiKa Wallace is not your typical New York Times photographer.
She’s 17, competes in slam poetry events and describes herself as “an amalgamation of creative witticisms, music references and chocolate.” Raised by a single parent from a blue-collar background, this “young, queer, black girl” attends high school in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C.
She is, as she puts it, “a square peg in a round hole.”
She is also among 22 young women who took photos for the project “This is 18,” which documents girls around the world. And now she has been published in The New York Times, in a special section devoted to exploring what life looks like for girls turning 18 in 2018. The project goes online today and will appear in print next week.
“What surprised me is that a major news outlet that is consumed by millions of people all over the world is allowing teenagers to tell teenager stories,” she said. “Normally, when a story is told, especially for a major news outlet, it’s told by someone who’s 30 or 40 years old. It’s just seen from a different lens versus when your peers get to tell your story.”
Staff photographers for The New York Times usually have several years of professional experience at other news organizations, and even then, they usually have to wait awhile before they get to work on projects. But the visual journalists like Ms. Wallace whom we enlisted for this project were decidedly different. They were young women, mostly teenagers.
Image
Mahak Naiwal with her friends at her home in New Delhi.CreditShraddha Gupta for The New York Times
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Liana Sharifian, among few Iranian women who play the bagpipe (ney-anbān), and her friend Miad play folk music from southern Iran.CreditAtefe Moeini for The New York Times
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Maryclare Chinedo and her mother in the Bronx before departing for Brown University.CreditJulie Lozano/Bronx Documentary Center
Jessica Bennett, the paper’s gender editor, realized early on that the key to success for this project was going to be getting an authentic view of the lives of 18-year-old girls. She and Jodi Rudoren, associate managing editor for audience — in collaboration with a team of editors and designers in Styles — decided the best way to assure that authenticity of experience was to have teenage photographers take the pictures and conduct interviews.
The project, managed by Sharon Attia, a 23-year-old photographer herself, became less hierarchal because most of the young women also choose their subjects.
The team behind the project paired each photographer with a mentor to help them complete the assignment and to make it a learning experience.
We asked the photographers to find the girls, photograph and interview them, and make videos of their subjects, as well. Although the photographers were mostly in their late teens, they were asked to act like professionals. And they did.
So how do you find a couple dozen talented female teenage photographers from all over the world? Well, let’s say it takes a village — a global village. Sandra Stevenson, the project’s picture editor, and I relied on a global network of photographers, editors and teachers that we have compiled over decades.
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Lori’anne Bemba, center, with her sister and grandmother at a family wedding in Montreal, Canada.CreditAdele Foglia for The New York Times
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Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino at Bard College in New York.CreditTiKa Wallace for The New York Times
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Obdulia González González embroiders beside her artesanal craft stall in Zacatecas, Mexico.CreditJesse Mireles for The New York Times
The team decided not to take a set approach, but it did try to choose 18-year-old female subjects with various experiences from a variety of places. For the most part, it was an organic process, because it was led by the young women. And it was often an educational experience for the photographers, as Adèle Foglia, a 21-year-old photographer from Montreal, noted.
“What surprised me the most about this project was to realize how differently the world all experiences this transition to adulthood,” she said. “And also it pushed me to reflect on my own experience and to see how sometimes the world may be such an unwelcoming space for women who have dreams and the determination to realize those dreams.”
Many of the photographers felt empowered by the project and the opportunity to highlight their own concerns in their own communities.
Jessie Mirelas, 19, who grew up in Zacatecas, Mexico, has always been proud of living in “a diverse multicultural country with great architecture, great destinations and an exquisite gastronomy — a place where the peoples that preceded us remain alive.”
She photographed Obdulia González González, an 18-year-old who is part of the indigenous Wixárika people of northern Mexico. She helps her parents sell traditional crafts and hopes to attend college.
“I believe this project is important because it’s giving us a voice, an opportunity to tell our story not only just in Mexico, but to the world,” said Ms. Mirelas, who studies at the University of Veracruz and wants to become a journalist. “To be able to show the legacy and cultural heritage of our indigenous peoples who are often neglected or ignored.”
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Madison changes her son’s diaper.CreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
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Yasmine Malone photographing Madison as she looks through her journals and art.CreditChandler Griffin
Yasmine Malone, who turned 20 this month, grew up in Clarksdale, Miss., in the Mississippi Delta and is now a student at the University Of Mississippi in Oxford, majoring in English and political science. Using just the camera in her phone, she documented Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale.
“I saw much of my mom and sister in her when she spoke about these things, being that they have all experienced being a teen mom in poverty with limited resources,” she said. “The frequency of this story is where it’s power stems. Madison Justice is not alone in her struggle; plenty of teens deal with it. Their stories deserve to be told for not only the realness of it all, but for its humanity, perseverance and strength.”
When many think of the Delta, they think of “poverty, crime, gun violence and low health rates,” Ms. Malone said. She learned that “we all have a story worth telling” which, over time fosters hope in her community. “If we can find our common threads,” she said, “we’ll realize the gaps between us are not that big, and there is where real social change can happen.”
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Millie Landewee, a member of an all-girl skate crew in Melbourne, in her bedroom.CreditEremaya Albrecht for The New York Times
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Shama Ghosh with her sister-in-law’s baby.CreditTahia Farhin Haque for The New York Times.
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Wanjiku Gakuru in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi.CreditSarah Sunday Moses for The New York Times
Some of the young photographers already had a mentor, but for the others, we asked photographers in their country to take on the role. Sandra provided guidance on how to take photographs and monitored the progress of participants to keep them on track. For three months straight, she was like an air traffic controller on the day before Thanksgiving — with some of the pilots speaking languages she did not understand.
For many participants, the project was a crash course in documentary photography and filmmaking: Make wide shots so we can see where you are, and also details. Photograph them hanging out with both friends and family and in their rooms alone. And be sure to collect family photos. Oh, and make a video of them, too.
Ms. Bennett and Ms. Attia teamed up with editors from the Styles section and digital and print designers to curate all the material and present it as a zine.
At the beginning, each photographer was asked to find three different 18 year olds. We asked them to not choose their friends and to send us a brief bio of each subject and a few photos of them in their rooms. The team then chose one of those subjects for each photographer.
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Aleksandra Yuryeva with her younger sister and friend at a park in Moscow.CreditAnna Dermicheva for The New York Times
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Victory Chukwu and her mother prepare lunch in Lagos, Nigeria.CreditAmarachi Chukwuma for The New York Times
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Jung Eun Yang applies pigment to a mannequin. Her dream is to become a makeup artist.CreditDa Hyeon Kim for The New York Times
Sarah Sunday Moses, 19, hails from South Sudan but grew up in Kenya after her parents fled the instability in their country. She photographed Wanjiku Muthoni Gakuru, who is studying urban planning at the University of Nairobi. What impressed Ms. Moses “the most in doing the project was the amount of people that were required,” she said, and the complexity of the forms that we asked the photographers to fill out.
She hopes that readers see that “despite being from different parts of the world, we are still similar,” she said.
Some of the photographers documented young women who were similar to themselves, while others spent time in situations quite different from their own. Tahia Farhin Haque from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is studying biochemistry at North South University while also studying at a photography school. While she describes herself as a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab, she photographed Shama Ghosha, a young Hindu woman who lives with her husband in Chandpur and hopes to finish high school and become a teacher.
“I went there with my eyes shut and came back with my eyes open of an entirely different life of a girl that lived in a different state,” she said. “We must empathize with the world around us. And not take anything for granted.”
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Anndrine Lund and friends pack up their things during a rainstorm in Norway.CreditCelina Christoffersen for The New York Times
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Shenzhi Xu at her high school in Chengdu, China.CreditLuxi Yang for The New York Times
Help Us Celebrate Girlhood Around the World
Share a photo of yourself at 18 with the hashtag #ThisIs18 on your favorite social platform. What advice would you give to the girl in the photo? Follow along on Instagram (@nytgender) as we feature some of our favorite TBTs.
James Estrin, the co-editor of Lens, joined The Times as a photographer in 1992 after years of freelancing for the newspaper and hundreds of other publications. @JamesEstrin
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/lens/what-life-looks-like-girls-18.html |
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The New York Times asked 22 young women to take photos for a project exploring daily life for girls around the world who are becoming adults this year.
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Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale, Miss., visiting where she grew up.CreditCreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
TiKa Wallace is not your typical New York Times photographer.
She’s 17, competes in slam poetry events and describes herself as “an amalgamation of creative witticisms, music references and chocolate.” Raised by a single parent from a blue-collar background, this “young, queer, black girl” attends high school in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C.
She is, as she puts it, “a square peg in a round hole.”
She is also among 22 young women who took photos for the project “This is 18,” which documents girls around the world. And now she has been published in The New York Times, in a special section devoted to exploring what life looks like for girls turning 18 in 2018. The project goes online today and will appear in print next week.
“What surprised me is that a major news outlet that is consumed by millions of people all over the world is allowing teenagers to tell teenager stories,” she said. “Normally, when a story is told, especially for a major news outlet, it’s told by someone who’s 30 or 40 years old. It’s just seen from a different lens versus when your peers get to tell your story.”
Staff photographers for The New York Times usually have several years of professional experience at other news organizations, and even then, they usually have to wait awhile before they get to work on projects. But the visual journalists like Ms. Wallace whom we enlisted for this project were decidedly different. They were young women, mostly teenagers.
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Mahak Naiwal with her friends at her home in New Delhi.CreditShraddha Gupta for The New York Times
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Liana Sharifian, among few Iranian women who play the bagpipe (ney-anbān), and her friend Miad play folk music from southern Iran.CreditAtefe Moeini for The New York Times
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Maryclare Chinedo and her mother in the Bronx before departing for Brown University.CreditJulie Lozano/Bronx Documentary Center
Jessica Bennett, the paper’s gender editor, realized early on that the key to success for this project was going to be getting an authentic view of the lives of 18-year-old girls. She and Jodi Rudoren, associate managing editor for audience — in collaboration with a team of editors and designers in Styles — decided the best way to assure that authenticity of experience was to have teenage photographers take the pictures and conduct interviews.
The project, managed by Sharon Attia, a 23-year-old photographer herself, became less hierarchal because most of the young women also choose their subjects.
The team behind the project paired each photographer with a mentor to help them complete the assignment and to make it a learning experience.
We asked the photographers to find the girls, photograph and interview them, and make videos of their subjects, as well. Although the photographers were mostly in their late teens, they were asked to act like professionals. And they did.
So how do you find a couple dozen talented female teenage photographers from all over the world? Well, let’s say it takes a village — a global village. Sandra Stevenson, the project’s picture editor, and I relied on a global network of photographers, editors and teachers that we have compiled over decades.
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Lori’anne Bemba, center, with her sister and grandmother at a family wedding in Montreal, Canada.CreditAdele Foglia for The New York Times
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Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino at Bard College in New York.CreditTiKa Wallace for The New York Times
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Obdulia González González embroiders beside her artesanal craft stall in Zacatecas, Mexico.CreditJesse Mireles for The New York Times
The team decided not to take a set approach, but it did try to choose 18-year-old female subjects with various experiences from a variety of places. For the most part, it was an organic process, because it was led by the young women. And it was often an educational experience for the photographers, as Adèle Foglia, a 21-year-old photographer from Montreal, noted.
“What surprised me the most about this project was to realize how differently the world all experiences this transition to adulthood,” she said. “And also it pushed me to reflect on my own experience and to see how sometimes the world may be such an unwelcoming space for women who have dreams and the determination to realize those dreams.”
Many of the photographers felt empowered by the project and the opportunity to highlight their own concerns in their own communities.
Jessie Mirelas, 19, who grew up in Zacatecas, Mexico, has always been proud of living in “a diverse multicultural country with great architecture, great destinations and an exquisite gastronomy — a place where the peoples that preceded us remain alive.”
She photographed Obdulia González González, an 18-year-old who is part of the indigenous Wixárika people of northern Mexico. She helps her parents sell traditional crafts and hopes to attend college.
“I believe this project is important because it’s giving us a voice, an opportunity to tell our story not only just in Mexico, but to the world,” said Ms. Mirelas, who studies at the University of Veracruz and wants to become a journalist. “To be able to show the legacy and cultural heritage of our indigenous peoples who are often neglected or ignored.”
Image
Madison changes her son’s diaper.CreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
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Yasmine Malone photographing Madison as she looks through her journals and art.CreditChandler Griffin
Yasmine Malone, who turned 20 this month, grew up in Clarksdale, Miss., in the Mississippi Delta and is now a student at the University Of Mississippi in Oxford, majoring in English and political science. Using just the camera in her phone, she documented Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale.
“I saw much of my mom and sister in her when she spoke about these things, being that they have all experienced being a teen mom in poverty with limited resources,” she said. “The frequency of this story is where it’s power stems. Madison Justice is not alone in her struggle; plenty of teens deal with it. Their stories deserve to be told for not only the realness of it all, but for its humanity, perseverance and strength.”
When many think of the Delta, they think of “poverty, crime, gun violence and low health rates,” Ms. Malone said. She learned that “we all have a story worth telling” which, over time fosters hope in her community. “If we can find our common threads,” she said, “we’ll realize the gaps between us are not that big, and there is where real social change can happen.”
Image
Millie Landewee, a member of an all-girl skate crew in Melbourne, in her bedroom.CreditEremaya Albrecht for The New York Times
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Shama Ghosh with her sister-in-law’s baby.CreditTahia Farhin Haque for The New York Times.
Image
Wanjiku Gakuru in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi.CreditSarah Sunday Moses for The New York Times
Some of the young photographers already had a mentor, but for the others, we asked photographers in their country to take on the role. Sandra provided guidance on how to take photographs and monitored the progress of participants to keep them on track. For three months straight, she was like an air traffic controller on the day before Thanksgiving — with some of the pilots speaking languages she did not understand.
For many participants, the project was a crash course in documentary photography and filmmaking: Make wide shots so we can see where you are, and also details. Photograph them hanging out with both friends and family and in their rooms alone. And be sure to collect family photos. Oh, and make a video of them, too.
Ms. Bennett and Ms. Attia teamed up with editors from the Styles section and digital and print designers to curate all the material and present it as a zine.
At the beginning, each photographer was asked to find three different 18 year olds. We asked them to not choose their friends and to send us a brief bio of each subject and a few photos of them in their rooms. The team then chose one of those subjects for each photographer.
Image
Aleksandra Yuryeva with her younger sister and friend at a park in Moscow.CreditAnna Dermicheva for The New York Times
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Victory Chukwu and her mother prepare lunch in Lagos, Nigeria.CreditAmarachi Chukwuma for The New York Times
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Jung Eun Yang applies pigment to a mannequin. Her dream is to become a makeup artist.CreditDa Hyeon Kim for The New York Times
Sarah Sunday Moses, 19, hails from South Sudan but grew up in Kenya after her parents fled the instability in their country. She photographed Wanjiku Muthoni Gakuru, who is studying urban planning at the University of Nairobi. What impressed Ms. Moses “the most in doing the project was the amount of people that were required,” she said, and the complexity of the forms that we asked the photographers to fill out.
She hopes that readers see that “despite being from different parts of the world, we are still similar,” she said.
Some of the photographers documented young women who were similar to themselves, while others spent time in situations quite different from their own. Tahia Farhin Haque from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is studying biochemistry at North South University while also studying at a photography school. While she describes herself as a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab, she photographed Shama Ghosha, a young Hindu woman who lives with her husband in Chandpur and hopes to finish high school and become a teacher.
“I went there with my eyes shut and came back with my eyes open of an entirely different life of a girl that lived in a different state,” she said. “We must empathize with the world around us. And not take anything for granted.”
Image
Anndrine Lund and friends pack up their things during a rainstorm in Norway.CreditCelina Christoffersen for The New York Times
Image
Shenzhi Xu at her high school in Chengdu, China.CreditLuxi Yang for The New York Times
Help Us Celebrate Girlhood Around the World
Share a photo of yourself at 18 with the hashtag #ThisIs18 on your favorite social platform. What advice would you give to the girl in the photo? Follow along on Instagram (@nytgender) as we feature some of our favorite TBTs.
James Estrin, the co-editor of Lens, joined The Times as a photographer in 1992 after years of freelancing for the newspaper and hundreds of other publications. @JamesEstrin
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/lens/what-life-looks-like-girls-18.html |
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The New York Times asked 22 young women to take photos for a project exploring daily life for girls around the world who are becoming adults this year.
Image
Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale, Miss., visiting where she grew up.CreditCreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
TiKa Wallace is not your typical New York Times photographer.
She’s 17, competes in slam poetry events and describes herself as “an amalgamation of creative witticisms, music references and chocolate.” Raised by a single parent from a blue-collar background, this “young, queer, black girl” attends high school in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C.
She is, as she puts it, “a square peg in a round hole.”
She is also among 22 young women who took photos for the project “This is 18,” which documents girls around the world. And now she has been published in The New York Times, in a special section devoted to exploring what life looks like for girls turning 18 in 2018. The project goes online today and will appear in print next week.
“What surprised me is that a major news outlet that is consumed by millions of people all over the world is allowing teenagers to tell teenager stories,” she said. “Normally, when a story is told, especially for a major news outlet, it’s told by someone who’s 30 or 40 years old. It’s just seen from a different lens versus when your peers get to tell your story.”
Staff photographers for The New York Times usually have several years of professional experience at other news organizations, and even then, they usually have to wait awhile before they get to work on projects. But the visual journalists like Ms. Wallace whom we enlisted for this project were decidedly different. They were young women, mostly teenagers.
Image
Mahak Naiwal with her friends at her home in New Delhi.CreditShraddha Gupta for The New York Times
Image
Liana Sharifian, among few Iranian women who play the bagpipe (ney-anbān), and her friend Miad play folk music from southern Iran.CreditAtefe Moeini for The New York Times
Image
Maryclare Chinedo and her mother in the Bronx before departing for Brown University.CreditJulie Lozano/Bronx Documentary Center
Jessica Bennett, the paper’s gender editor, realized early on that the key to success for this project was going to be getting an authentic view of the lives of 18-year-old girls. She and Jodi Rudoren, associate managing editor for audience — in collaboration with a team of editors and designers in Styles — decided the best way to assure that authenticity of experience was to have teenage photographers take the pictures and conduct interviews.
The project, managed by Sharon Attia, a 23-year-old photographer herself, became less hierarchal because most of the young women also choose their subjects.
The team behind the project paired each photographer with a mentor to help them complete the assignment and to make it a learning experience.
We asked the photographers to find the girls, photograph and interview them, and make videos of their subjects, as well. Although the photographers were mostly in their late teens, they were asked to act like professionals. And they did.
So how do you find a couple dozen talented female teenage photographers from all over the world? Well, let’s say it takes a village — a global village. Sandra Stevenson, the project’s picture editor, and I relied on a global network of photographers, editors and teachers that we have compiled over decades.
Image
Lori’anne Bemba, center, with her sister and grandmother at a family wedding in Montreal, Canada.CreditAdele Foglia for The New York Times
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Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino at Bard College in New York.CreditTiKa Wallace for The New York Times
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Obdulia González González embroiders beside her artesanal craft stall in Zacatecas, Mexico.CreditJesse Mireles for The New York Times
The team decided not to take a set approach, but it did try to choose 18-year-old female subjects with various experiences from a variety of places. For the most part, it was an organic process, because it was led by the young women. And it was often an educational experience for the photographers, as Adèle Foglia, a 21-year-old photographer from Montreal, noted.
“What surprised me the most about this project was to realize how differently the world all experiences this transition to adulthood,” she said. “And also it pushed me to reflect on my own experience and to see how sometimes the world may be such an unwelcoming space for women who have dreams and the determination to realize those dreams.”
Many of the photographers felt empowered by the project and the opportunity to highlight their own concerns in their own communities.
Jessie Mirelas, 19, who grew up in Zacatecas, Mexico, has always been proud of living in “a diverse multicultural country with great architecture, great destinations and an exquisite gastronomy — a place where the peoples that preceded us remain alive.”
She photographed Obdulia González González, an 18-year-old who is part of the indigenous Wixárika people of northern Mexico. She helps her parents sell traditional crafts and hopes to attend college.
“I believe this project is important because it’s giving us a voice, an opportunity to tell our story not only just in Mexico, but to the world,” said Ms. Mirelas, who studies at the University of Veracruz and wants to become a journalist. “To be able to show the legacy and cultural heritage of our indigenous peoples who are often neglected or ignored.”
Image
Madison changes her son’s diaper.CreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
Image
Yasmine Malone photographing Madison as she looks through her journals and art.CreditChandler Griffin
Yasmine Malone, who turned 20 this month, grew up in Clarksdale, Miss., in the Mississippi Delta and is now a student at the University Of Mississippi in Oxford, majoring in English and political science. Using just the camera in her phone, she documented Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale.
“I saw much of my mom and sister in her when she spoke about these things, being that they have all experienced being a teen mom in poverty with limited resources,” she said. “The frequency of this story is where it’s power stems. Madison Justice is not alone in her struggle; plenty of teens deal with it. Their stories deserve to be told for not only the realness of it all, but for its humanity, perseverance and strength.”
When many think of the Delta, they think of “poverty, crime, gun violence and low health rates,” Ms. Malone said. She learned that “we all have a story worth telling” which, over time fosters hope in her community. “If we can find our common threads,” she said, “we’ll realize the gaps between us are not that big, and there is where real social change can happen.”
Image
Millie Landewee, a member of an all-girl skate crew in Melbourne, in her bedroom.CreditEremaya Albrecht for The New York Times
Image
Shama Ghosh with her sister-in-law’s baby.CreditTahia Farhin Haque for The New York Times.
Image
Wanjiku Gakuru in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi.CreditSarah Sunday Moses for The New York Times
Some of the young photographers already had a mentor, but for the others, we asked photographers in their country to take on the role. Sandra provided guidance on how to take photographs and monitored the progress of participants to keep them on track. For three months straight, she was like an air traffic controller on the day before Thanksgiving — with some of the pilots speaking languages she did not understand.
For many participants, the project was a crash course in documentary photography and filmmaking: Make wide shots so we can see where you are, and also details. Photograph them hanging out with both friends and family and in their rooms alone. And be sure to collect family photos. Oh, and make a video of them, too.
Ms. Bennett and Ms. Attia teamed up with editors from the Styles section and digital and print designers to curate all the material and present it as a zine.
At the beginning, each photographer was asked to find three different 18 year olds. We asked them to not choose their friends and to send us a brief bio of each subject and a few photos of them in their rooms. The team then chose one of those subjects for each photographer.
Image
Aleksandra Yuryeva with her younger sister and friend at a park in Moscow.CreditAnna Dermicheva for The New York Times
Image
Victory Chukwu and her mother prepare lunch in Lagos, Nigeria.CreditAmarachi Chukwuma for The New York Times
Image
Jung Eun Yang applies pigment to a mannequin. Her dream is to become a makeup artist.CreditDa Hyeon Kim for The New York Times
Sarah Sunday Moses, 19, hails from South Sudan but grew up in Kenya after her parents fled the instability in their country. She photographed Wanjiku Muthoni Gakuru, who is studying urban planning at the University of Nairobi. What impressed Ms. Moses “the most in doing the project was the amount of people that were required,” she said, and the complexity of the forms that we asked the photographers to fill out.
She hopes that readers see that “despite being from different parts of the world, we are still similar,” she said.
Some of the photographers documented young women who were similar to themselves, while others spent time in situations quite different from their own. Tahia Farhin Haque from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is studying biochemistry at North South University while also studying at a photography school. While she describes herself as a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab, she photographed Shama Ghosha, a young Hindu woman who lives with her husband in Chandpur and hopes to finish high school and become a teacher.
“I went there with my eyes shut and came back with my eyes open of an entirely different life of a girl that lived in a different state,” she said. “We must empathize with the world around us. And not take anything for granted.”
Image
Anndrine Lund and friends pack up their things during a rainstorm in Norway.CreditCelina Christoffersen for The New York Times
Image
Shenzhi Xu at her high school in Chengdu, China.CreditLuxi Yang for The New York Times
Help Us Celebrate Girlhood Around the World
Share a photo of yourself at 18 with the hashtag #ThisIs18 on your favorite social platform. What advice would you give to the girl in the photo? Follow along on Instagram (@nytgender) as we feature some of our favorite TBTs.
James Estrin, the co-editor of Lens, joined The Times as a photographer in 1992 after years of freelancing for the newspaper and hundreds of other publications. @JamesEstrin
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/lens/what-life-looks-like-girls-18.html |
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The New York Times asked 22 young women to take photos for a project exploring daily life for girls around the world who are becoming adults this year.
Image
Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale, Miss., visiting where she grew up.CreditCreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
TiKa Wallace is not your typical New York Times photographer.
She’s 17, competes in slam poetry events and describes herself as “an amalgamation of creative witticisms, music references and chocolate.” Raised by a single parent from a blue-collar background, this “young, queer, black girl” attends high school in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C.
She is, as she puts it, “a square peg in a round hole.”
She is also among 22 young women who took photos for the project “This is 18,” which documents girls around the world. And now she has been published in The New York Times, in a special section devoted to exploring what life looks like for girls turning 18 in 2018. The project goes online today and will appear in print next week.
“What surprised me is that a major news outlet that is consumed by millions of people all over the world is allowing teenagers to tell teenager stories,” she said. “Normally, when a story is told, especially for a major news outlet, it’s told by someone who’s 30 or 40 years old. It’s just seen from a different lens versus when your peers get to tell your story.”
Staff photographers for The New York Times usually have several years of professional experience at other news organizations, and even then, they usually have to wait awhile before they get to work on projects. But the visual journalists like Ms. Wallace whom we enlisted for this project were decidedly different. They were young women, mostly teenagers.
Image
Mahak Naiwal with her friends at her home in New Delhi.CreditShraddha Gupta for The New York Times
Image
Liana Sharifian, among few Iranian women who play the bagpipe (ney-anbān), and her friend Miad play folk music from southern Iran.CreditAtefe Moeini for The New York Times
Image
Maryclare Chinedo and her mother in the Bronx before departing for Brown University.CreditJulie Lozano/Bronx Documentary Center
Jessica Bennett, the paper’s gender editor, realized early on that the key to success for this project was going to be getting an authentic view of the lives of 18-year-old girls. She and Jodi Rudoren, associate managing editor for audience — in collaboration with a team of editors and designers in Styles — decided the best way to assure that authenticity of experience was to have teenage photographers take the pictures and conduct interviews.
The project, managed by Sharon Attia, a 23-year-old photographer herself, became less hierarchal because most of the young women also choose their subjects.
The team behind the project paired each photographer with a mentor to help them complete the assignment and to make it a learning experience.
We asked the photographers to find the girls, photograph and interview them, and make videos of their subjects, as well. Although the photographers were mostly in their late teens, they were asked to act like professionals. And they did.
So how do you find a couple dozen talented female teenage photographers from all over the world? Well, let’s say it takes a village — a global village. Sandra Stevenson, the project’s picture editor, and I relied on a global network of photographers, editors and teachers that we have compiled over decades.
Image
Lori’anne Bemba, center, with her sister and grandmother at a family wedding in Montreal, Canada.CreditAdele Foglia for The New York Times
Image
Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino at Bard College in New York.CreditTiKa Wallace for The New York Times
Image
Obdulia González González embroiders beside her artesanal craft stall in Zacatecas, Mexico.CreditJesse Mireles for The New York Times
The team decided not to take a set approach, but it did try to choose 18-year-old female subjects with various experiences from a variety of places. For the most part, it was an organic process, because it was led by the young women. And it was often an educational experience for the photographers, as Adèle Foglia, a 21-year-old photographer from Montreal, noted.
“What surprised me the most about this project was to realize how differently the world all experiences this transition to adulthood,” she said. “And also it pushed me to reflect on my own experience and to see how sometimes the world may be such an unwelcoming space for women who have dreams and the determination to realize those dreams.”
Many of the photographers felt empowered by the project and the opportunity to highlight their own concerns in their own communities.
Jessie Mirelas, 19, who grew up in Zacatecas, Mexico, has always been proud of living in “a diverse multicultural country with great architecture, great destinations and an exquisite gastronomy — a place where the peoples that preceded us remain alive.”
She photographed Obdulia González González, an 18-year-old who is part of the indigenous Wixárika people of northern Mexico. She helps her parents sell traditional crafts and hopes to attend college.
“I believe this project is important because it’s giving us a voice, an opportunity to tell our story not only just in Mexico, but to the world,” said Ms. Mirelas, who studies at the University of Veracruz and wants to become a journalist. “To be able to show the legacy and cultural heritage of our indigenous peoples who are often neglected or ignored.”
Image
Madison changes her son’s diaper.CreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
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Yasmine Malone photographing Madison as she looks through her journals and art.CreditChandler Griffin
Yasmine Malone, who turned 20 this month, grew up in Clarksdale, Miss., in the Mississippi Delta and is now a student at the University Of Mississippi in Oxford, majoring in English and political science. Using just the camera in her phone, she documented Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale.
“I saw much of my mom and sister in her when she spoke about these things, being that they have all experienced being a teen mom in poverty with limited resources,” she said. “The frequency of this story is where it’s power stems. Madison Justice is not alone in her struggle; plenty of teens deal with it. Their stories deserve to be told for not only the realness of it all, but for its humanity, perseverance and strength.”
When many think of the Delta, they think of “poverty, crime, gun violence and low health rates,” Ms. Malone said. She learned that “we all have a story worth telling” which, over time fosters hope in her community. “If we can find our common threads,” she said, “we’ll realize the gaps between us are not that big, and there is where real social change can happen.”
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Millie Landewee, a member of an all-girl skate crew in Melbourne, in her bedroom.CreditEremaya Albrecht for The New York Times
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Shama Ghosh with her sister-in-law’s baby.CreditTahia Farhin Haque for The New York Times.
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Wanjiku Gakuru in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi.CreditSarah Sunday Moses for The New York Times
Some of the young photographers already had a mentor, but for the others, we asked photographers in their country to take on the role. Sandra provided guidance on how to take photographs and monitored the progress of participants to keep them on track. For three months straight, she was like an air traffic controller on the day before Thanksgiving — with some of the pilots speaking languages she did not understand.
For many participants, the project was a crash course in documentary photography and filmmaking: Make wide shots so we can see where you are, and also details. Photograph them hanging out with both friends and family and in their rooms alone. And be sure to collect family photos. Oh, and make a video of them, too.
Ms. Bennett and Ms. Attia teamed up with editors from the Styles section and digital and print designers to curate all the material and present it as a zine.
At the beginning, each photographer was asked to find three different 18 year olds. We asked them to not choose their friends and to send us a brief bio of each subject and a few photos of them in their rooms. The team then chose one of those subjects for each photographer.
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Aleksandra Yuryeva with her younger sister and friend at a park in Moscow.CreditAnna Dermicheva for The New York Times
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Victory Chukwu and her mother prepare lunch in Lagos, Nigeria.CreditAmarachi Chukwuma for The New York Times
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Jung Eun Yang applies pigment to a mannequin. Her dream is to become a makeup artist.CreditDa Hyeon Kim for The New York Times
Sarah Sunday Moses, 19, hails from South Sudan but grew up in Kenya after her parents fled the instability in their country. She photographed Wanjiku Muthoni Gakuru, who is studying urban planning at the University of Nairobi. What impressed Ms. Moses “the most in doing the project was the amount of people that were required,” she said, and the complexity of the forms that we asked the photographers to fill out.
She hopes that readers see that “despite being from different parts of the world, we are still similar,” she said.
Some of the photographers documented young women who were similar to themselves, while others spent time in situations quite different from their own. Tahia Farhin Haque from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is studying biochemistry at North South University while also studying at a photography school. While she describes herself as a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab, she photographed Shama Ghosha, a young Hindu woman who lives with her husband in Chandpur and hopes to finish high school and become a teacher.
“I went there with my eyes shut and came back with my eyes open of an entirely different life of a girl that lived in a different state,” she said. “We must empathize with the world around us. And not take anything for granted.”
Image
Anndrine Lund and friends pack up their things during a rainstorm in Norway.CreditCelina Christoffersen for The New York Times
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Shenzhi Xu at her high school in Chengdu, China.CreditLuxi Yang for The New York Times
Help Us Celebrate Girlhood Around the World
Share a photo of yourself at 18 with the hashtag #ThisIs18 on your favorite social platform. What advice would you give to the girl in the photo? Follow along on Instagram (@nytgender) as we feature some of our favorite TBTs.
James Estrin, the co-editor of Lens, joined The Times as a photographer in 1992 after years of freelancing for the newspaper and hundreds of other publications. @JamesEstrin
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/lens/what-life-looks-like-girls-18.html |
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The New York Times asked 22 young women to take photos for a project exploring daily life for girls around the world who are becoming adults this year.
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Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale, Miss., visiting where she grew up.CreditCreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
TiKa Wallace is not your typical New York Times photographer.
She’s 17, competes in slam poetry events and describes herself as “an amalgamation of creative witticisms, music references and chocolate.” Raised by a single parent from a blue-collar background, this “young, queer, black girl” attends high school in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C.
She is, as she puts it, “a square peg in a round hole.”
She is also among 22 young women who took photos for the project “This is 18,” which documents girls around the world. And now she has been published in The New York Times, in a special section devoted to exploring what life looks like for girls turning 18 in 2018. The project goes online today and will appear in print next week.
“What surprised me is that a major news outlet that is consumed by millions of people all over the world is allowing teenagers to tell teenager stories,” she said. “Normally, when a story is told, especially for a major news outlet, it’s told by someone who’s 30 or 40 years old. It’s just seen from a different lens versus when your peers get to tell your story.”
Staff photographers for The New York Times usually have several years of professional experience at other news organizations, and even then, they usually have to wait awhile before they get to work on projects. But the visual journalists like Ms. Wallace whom we enlisted for this project were decidedly different. They were young women, mostly teenagers.
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Mahak Naiwal with her friends at her home in New Delhi.CreditShraddha Gupta for The New York Times
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Liana Sharifian, among few Iranian women who play the bagpipe (ney-anbān), and her friend Miad play folk music from southern Iran.CreditAtefe Moeini for The New York Times
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Maryclare Chinedo and her mother in the Bronx before departing for Brown University.CreditJulie Lozano/Bronx Documentary Center
Jessica Bennett, the paper’s gender editor, realized early on that the key to success for this project was going to be getting an authentic view of the lives of 18-year-old girls. She and Jodi Rudoren, associate managing editor for audience — in collaboration with a team of editors and designers in Styles — decided the best way to assure that authenticity of experience was to have teenage photographers take the pictures and conduct interviews.
The project, managed by Sharon Attia, a 23-year-old photographer herself, became less hierarchal because most of the young women also choose their subjects.
The team behind the project paired each photographer with a mentor to help them complete the assignment and to make it a learning experience.
We asked the photographers to find the girls, photograph and interview them, and make videos of their subjects, as well. Although the photographers were mostly in their late teens, they were asked to act like professionals. And they did.
So how do you find a couple dozen talented female teenage photographers from all over the world? Well, let’s say it takes a village — a global village. Sandra Stevenson, the project’s picture editor, and I relied on a global network of photographers, editors and teachers that we have compiled over decades.
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Lori’anne Bemba, center, with her sister and grandmother at a family wedding in Montreal, Canada.CreditAdele Foglia for The New York Times
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Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino at Bard College in New York.CreditTiKa Wallace for The New York Times
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Obdulia González González embroiders beside her artesanal craft stall in Zacatecas, Mexico.CreditJesse Mireles for The New York Times
The team decided not to take a set approach, but it did try to choose 18-year-old female subjects with various experiences from a variety of places. For the most part, it was an organic process, because it was led by the young women. And it was often an educational experience for the photographers, as Adèle Foglia, a 21-year-old photographer from Montreal, noted.
“What surprised me the most about this project was to realize how differently the world all experiences this transition to adulthood,” she said. “And also it pushed me to reflect on my own experience and to see how sometimes the world may be such an unwelcoming space for women who have dreams and the determination to realize those dreams.”
Many of the photographers felt empowered by the project and the opportunity to highlight their own concerns in their own communities.
Jessie Mirelas, 19, who grew up in Zacatecas, Mexico, has always been proud of living in “a diverse multicultural country with great architecture, great destinations and an exquisite gastronomy — a place where the peoples that preceded us remain alive.”
She photographed Obdulia González González, an 18-year-old who is part of the indigenous Wixárika people of northern Mexico. She helps her parents sell traditional crafts and hopes to attend college.
“I believe this project is important because it’s giving us a voice, an opportunity to tell our story not only just in Mexico, but to the world,” said Ms. Mirelas, who studies at the University of Veracruz and wants to become a journalist. “To be able to show the legacy and cultural heritage of our indigenous peoples who are often neglected or ignored.”
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Madison changes her son’s diaper.CreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
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Yasmine Malone photographing Madison as she looks through her journals and art.CreditChandler Griffin
Yasmine Malone, who turned 20 this month, grew up in Clarksdale, Miss., in the Mississippi Delta and is now a student at the University Of Mississippi in Oxford, majoring in English and political science. Using just the camera in her phone, she documented Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale.
“I saw much of my mom and sister in her when she spoke about these things, being that they have all experienced being a teen mom in poverty with limited resources,” she said. “The frequency of this story is where it’s power stems. Madison Justice is not alone in her struggle; plenty of teens deal with it. Their stories deserve to be told for not only the realness of it all, but for its humanity, perseverance and strength.”
When many think of the Delta, they think of “poverty, crime, gun violence and low health rates,” Ms. Malone said. She learned that “we all have a story worth telling” which, over time fosters hope in her community. “If we can find our common threads,” she said, “we’ll realize the gaps between us are not that big, and there is where real social change can happen.”
Image
Millie Landewee, a member of an all-girl skate crew in Melbourne, in her bedroom.CreditEremaya Albrecht for The New York Times
Image
Shama Ghosh with her sister-in-law’s baby.CreditTahia Farhin Haque for The New York Times.
Image
Wanjiku Gakuru in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi.CreditSarah Sunday Moses for The New York Times
Some of the young photographers already had a mentor, but for the others, we asked photographers in their country to take on the role. Sandra provided guidance on how to take photographs and monitored the progress of participants to keep them on track. For three months straight, she was like an air traffic controller on the day before Thanksgiving — with some of the pilots speaking languages she did not understand.
For many participants, the project was a crash course in documentary photography and filmmaking: Make wide shots so we can see where you are, and also details. Photograph them hanging out with both friends and family and in their rooms alone. And be sure to collect family photos. Oh, and make a video of them, too.
Ms. Bennett and Ms. Attia teamed up with editors from the Styles section and digital and print designers to curate all the material and present it as a zine.
At the beginning, each photographer was asked to find three different 18 year olds. We asked them to not choose their friends and to send us a brief bio of each subject and a few photos of them in their rooms. The team then chose one of those subjects for each photographer.
Image
Aleksandra Yuryeva with her younger sister and friend at a park in Moscow.CreditAnna Dermicheva for The New York Times
Image
Victory Chukwu and her mother prepare lunch in Lagos, Nigeria.CreditAmarachi Chukwuma for The New York Times
Image
Jung Eun Yang applies pigment to a mannequin. Her dream is to become a makeup artist.CreditDa Hyeon Kim for The New York Times
Sarah Sunday Moses, 19, hails from South Sudan but grew up in Kenya after her parents fled the instability in their country. She photographed Wanjiku Muthoni Gakuru, who is studying urban planning at the University of Nairobi. What impressed Ms. Moses “the most in doing the project was the amount of people that were required,” she said, and the complexity of the forms that we asked the photographers to fill out.
She hopes that readers see that “despite being from different parts of the world, we are still similar,” she said.
Some of the photographers documented young women who were similar to themselves, while others spent time in situations quite different from their own. Tahia Farhin Haque from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is studying biochemistry at North South University while also studying at a photography school. While she describes herself as a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab, she photographed Shama Ghosha, a young Hindu woman who lives with her husband in Chandpur and hopes to finish high school and become a teacher.
“I went there with my eyes shut and came back with my eyes open of an entirely different life of a girl that lived in a different state,” she said. “We must empathize with the world around us. And not take anything for granted.”
Image
Anndrine Lund and friends pack up their things during a rainstorm in Norway.CreditCelina Christoffersen for The New York Times
Image
Shenzhi Xu at her high school in Chengdu, China.CreditLuxi Yang for The New York Times
Help Us Celebrate Girlhood Around the World
Share a photo of yourself at 18 with the hashtag #ThisIs18 on your favorite social platform. What advice would you give to the girl in the photo? Follow along on Instagram (@nytgender) as we feature some of our favorite TBTs.
James Estrin, the co-editor of Lens, joined The Times as a photographer in 1992 after years of freelancing for the newspaper and hundreds of other publications. @JamesEstrin
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/lens/what-life-looks-like-girls-18.html |
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The New York Times asked 22 young women to take photos for a project exploring daily life for girls around the world who are becoming adults this year.
Image
Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale, Miss., visiting where she grew up.CreditCreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
TiKa Wallace is not your typical New York Times photographer.
She’s 17, competes in slam poetry events and describes herself as “an amalgamation of creative witticisms, music references and chocolate.” Raised by a single parent from a blue-collar background, this “young, queer, black girl” attends high school in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C.
She is, as she puts it, “a square peg in a round hole.”
She is also among 22 young women who took photos for the project “This is 18,” which documents girls around the world. And now she has been published in The New York Times, in a special section devoted to exploring what life looks like for girls turning 18 in 2018. The project goes online today and will appear in print next week.
“What surprised me is that a major news outlet that is consumed by millions of people all over the world is allowing teenagers to tell teenager stories,” she said. “Normally, when a story is told, especially for a major news outlet, it’s told by someone who’s 30 or 40 years old. It’s just seen from a different lens versus when your peers get to tell your story.”
Staff photographers for The New York Times usually have several years of professional experience at other news organizations, and even then, they usually have to wait awhile before they get to work on projects. But the visual journalists like Ms. Wallace whom we enlisted for this project were decidedly different. They were young women, mostly teenagers.
Image
Mahak Naiwal with her friends at her home in New Delhi.CreditShraddha Gupta for The New York Times
Image
Liana Sharifian, among few Iranian women who play the bagpipe (ney-anbān), and her friend Miad play folk music from southern Iran.CreditAtefe Moeini for The New York Times
Image
Maryclare Chinedo and her mother in the Bronx before departing for Brown University.CreditJulie Lozano/Bronx Documentary Center
Jessica Bennett, the paper’s gender editor, realized early on that the key to success for this project was going to be getting an authentic view of the lives of 18-year-old girls. She and Jodi Rudoren, associate managing editor for audience — in collaboration with a team of editors and designers in Styles — decided the best way to assure that authenticity of experience was to have teenage photographers take the pictures and conduct interviews.
The project, managed by Sharon Attia, a 23-year-old photographer herself, became less hierarchal because most of the young women also choose their subjects.
The team behind the project paired each photographer with a mentor to help them complete the assignment and to make it a learning experience.
We asked the photographers to find the girls, photograph and interview them, and make videos of their subjects, as well. Although the photographers were mostly in their late teens, they were asked to act like professionals. And they did.
So how do you find a couple dozen talented female teenage photographers from all over the world? Well, let’s say it takes a village — a global village. Sandra Stevenson, the project’s picture editor, and I relied on a global network of photographers, editors and teachers that we have compiled over decades.
Image
Lori’anne Bemba, center, with her sister and grandmother at a family wedding in Montreal, Canada.CreditAdele Foglia for The New York Times
Image
Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino at Bard College in New York.CreditTiKa Wallace for The New York Times
Image
Obdulia González González embroiders beside her artesanal craft stall in Zacatecas, Mexico.CreditJesse Mireles for The New York Times
The team decided not to take a set approach, but it did try to choose 18-year-old female subjects with various experiences from a variety of places. For the most part, it was an organic process, because it was led by the young women. And it was often an educational experience for the photographers, as Adèle Foglia, a 21-year-old photographer from Montreal, noted.
“What surprised me the most about this project was to realize how differently the world all experiences this transition to adulthood,” she said. “And also it pushed me to reflect on my own experience and to see how sometimes the world may be such an unwelcoming space for women who have dreams and the determination to realize those dreams.”
Many of the photographers felt empowered by the project and the opportunity to highlight their own concerns in their own communities.
Jessie Mirelas, 19, who grew up in Zacatecas, Mexico, has always been proud of living in “a diverse multicultural country with great architecture, great destinations and an exquisite gastronomy — a place where the peoples that preceded us remain alive.”
She photographed Obdulia González González, an 18-year-old who is part of the indigenous Wixárika people of northern Mexico. She helps her parents sell traditional crafts and hopes to attend college.
“I believe this project is important because it’s giving us a voice, an opportunity to tell our story not only just in Mexico, but to the world,” said Ms. Mirelas, who studies at the University of Veracruz and wants to become a journalist. “To be able to show the legacy and cultural heritage of our indigenous peoples who are often neglected or ignored.”
Image
Madison changes her son’s diaper.CreditYasmine Malone for The New York Times
Image
Yasmine Malone photographing Madison as she looks through her journals and art.CreditChandler Griffin
Yasmine Malone, who turned 20 this month, grew up in Clarksdale, Miss., in the Mississippi Delta and is now a student at the University Of Mississippi in Oxford, majoring in English and political science. Using just the camera in her phone, she documented Madison Justice, a teenage mother in Clarksdale.
“I saw much of my mom and sister in her when she spoke about these things, being that they have all experienced being a teen mom in poverty with limited resources,” she said. “The frequency of this story is where it’s power stems. Madison Justice is not alone in her struggle; plenty of teens deal with it. Their stories deserve to be told for not only the realness of it all, but for its humanity, perseverance and strength.”
When many think of the Delta, they think of “poverty, crime, gun violence and low health rates,” Ms. Malone said. She learned that “we all have a story worth telling” which, over time fosters hope in her community. “If we can find our common threads,” she said, “we’ll realize the gaps between us are not that big, and there is where real social change can happen.”
Image
Millie Landewee, a member of an all-girl skate crew in Melbourne, in her bedroom.CreditEremaya Albrecht for The New York Times
Image
Shama Ghosh with her sister-in-law’s baby.CreditTahia Farhin Haque for The New York Times.
Image
Wanjiku Gakuru in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi.CreditSarah Sunday Moses for The New York Times
Some of the young photographers already had a mentor, but for the others, we asked photographers in their country to take on the role. Sandra provided guidance on how to take photographs and monitored the progress of participants to keep them on track. For three months straight, she was like an air traffic controller on the day before Thanksgiving — with some of the pilots speaking languages she did not understand.
For many participants, the project was a crash course in documentary photography and filmmaking: Make wide shots so we can see where you are, and also details. Photograph them hanging out with both friends and family and in their rooms alone. And be sure to collect family photos. Oh, and make a video of them, too.
Ms. Bennett and Ms. Attia teamed up with editors from the Styles section and digital and print designers to curate all the material and present it as a zine.
At the beginning, each photographer was asked to find three different 18 year olds. We asked them to not choose their friends and to send us a brief bio of each subject and a few photos of them in their rooms. The team then chose one of those subjects for each photographer.
Image
Aleksandra Yuryeva with her younger sister and friend at a park in Moscow.CreditAnna Dermicheva for The New York Times
Image
Victory Chukwu and her mother prepare lunch in Lagos, Nigeria.CreditAmarachi Chukwuma for The New York Times
Image
Jung Eun Yang applies pigment to a mannequin. Her dream is to become a makeup artist.CreditDa Hyeon Kim for The New York Times
Sarah Sunday Moses, 19, hails from South Sudan but grew up in Kenya after her parents fled the instability in their country. She photographed Wanjiku Muthoni Gakuru, who is studying urban planning at the University of Nairobi. What impressed Ms. Moses “the most in doing the project was the amount of people that were required,” she said, and the complexity of the forms that we asked the photographers to fill out.
She hopes that readers see that “despite being from different parts of the world, we are still similar,” she said.
Some of the photographers documented young women who were similar to themselves, while others spent time in situations quite different from their own. Tahia Farhin Haque from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is studying biochemistry at North South University while also studying at a photography school. While she describes herself as a practicing Muslim who wears a hijab, she photographed Shama Ghosha, a young Hindu woman who lives with her husband in Chandpur and hopes to finish high school and become a teacher.
“I went there with my eyes shut and came back with my eyes open of an entirely different life of a girl that lived in a different state,” she said. “We must empathize with the world around us. And not take anything for granted.”
Image
Anndrine Lund and friends pack up their things during a rainstorm in Norway.CreditCelina Christoffersen for The New York Times
Image
Shenzhi Xu at her high school in Chengdu, China.CreditLuxi Yang for The New York Times
Help Us Celebrate Girlhood Around the World
Share a photo of yourself at 18 with the hashtag #ThisIs18 on your favorite social platform. What advice would you give to the girl in the photo? Follow along on Instagram (@nytgender) as we feature some of our favorite TBTs.
James Estrin, the co-editor of Lens, joined The Times as a photographer in 1992 after years of freelancing for the newspaper and hundreds of other publications. @JamesEstrin
Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/lens/what-life-looks-like-girls-18.html |
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All the more explicitly, stop continually taking shots at your eye level. So often I see pictures from a photographic artist where throughout 5 or so pictures, I can immediately tell how tall they are. That is because their point of view won't ever change. The issue with this is that you are not giving the watcher any kind of visual variety. It's additionally difficult to get the ideal organization if your camera is stuck at a similar stature for the whole day.
We want to see the eyes-
For 90% of the time, a groom to be is preparing, he is peering down. So when I go through pictures from Muslim wedding photographer Melbourne, it bodes well that 90% of the pictures show the highest point of the man of the hour's head. Particularly given the conditions in tip number one. This is ideal where you need to get low, however, you may have to try and lay on the ground. Not exclusively will this give you a point of view where you can see the eyes, yet you will seem as though a dedicated hero for your difficulty.
Show what it feels like-
The greater part of the big day is spent shooting minutes head-on as they occur. While this is certifiably not something terrible at all. We need to make sure to show what a portion of these minutes feels like for the individual you are shooting. This means reminding them what those minutes resemble for them. Not simply showing them what the second resembled for every other person. To do this we need to take pictures from the perspective of the subject. Consider what they are seeing and show that decently well. At times this might be shooting behind them or it might simply mean taking a picture that is like their viewpoint.
Understand the couple’s relationship style-
Presently ideally your customers came to you since they love your Sikh wedding photography Melbourne style. Notwithstanding, that doesn't imply that each customer that cherishes your style has a similar character. Become acquainted with your customers and what their relationship resembles through a straightforward online poll or by really investing energy with them two-on-one. The last thing you need to do is attempt to pull genuine sentiment out of them when they're an idiosyncratic carefree couple. You'll perceive how I pull out my couple's relationship style in my impending visit and workshop.
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What are the Important Wedding Photography Melbourne Rule To Instantly Take Better Wedding Photos?
For 90% of the time, a groom to be is preparing, he is peering down. So when I go through pictures from Muslim wedding photographer Melbourne, it bodes well that 90% of the pictures show the highest point of the man of the hour's head. Particularly given the conditions in tip number one. This is ideal where you need to get low, however, you may have to try and lay on the ground. Not exclusively will this give you a point of view where you can see the eyes, yet you will seem as though a dedicated hero for your difficulty.
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Indian Photographer Melbourne for Bride Guide to Make Your Wedding Day Go Smoothly
I’m sure you already know that choosing the right Indian photographer Melbourne is just as important as choosing the right groom. Getting the correct photographer is significant, however, there are loads of things that you can do to guarantee that your wedding photographs are comparable to what they can be.
Having a pre-wedding photoshoot can improve your wedding pictures more than everything else you may do. Consider the big picture, your photographer is very agreeable on his finish of the camera. The time you go through with your picture taker before the camera will assist you with turning out to be open to being the subject.
Wedding Photography Guide for Brides
Any photographer deserving at least some respect ought to have the option to present you in an exquisite and appealing position. Holding your elbows from your body lessens the clear width of your middle and highlights the chest. Moving your weight to your back foot cocks your hips into a place that gives you a provocative awe-inspiring quality. There are numerous other little deceives your Muslim wedding photographer Melbourne may instruct you.
Hair and Make-up-
Your wedding day isn't the opportune chance to explore different experiments regarding make-up and haircuts. Make certain to design a different day to have a hair and make-up "dress practice". If you intend to wear a headpiece, utilize this chance to ensure that it will fit with your hairdo. If you plan it right, your photographic artist might be accessible to take a few formals on this day as well.
Props-
Give you Indian photographer Melbourne the props that they should be imaginative. When requesting flowers for the wedding, make certain to arrange an additional single rose, boutonnière, strip or other modest things that the photographer can use in your photographs.
Remember to have a duplicate of your wedding greeting that he can consolidate into the detailed shots of your memorable day.
The Bouquet-
Never shroud your thousand-dollar dress with a hundred-dollar bouquet. In the event that you are a five-foot bride, don't organize a 3-foot falling bouquet. It will be a difficult day.
Before the day's over, you will wish that your bouquet was more modest, lighter, stronger, and possibly artificial. Also, if it's too huge you may even harm your visitors during the bouquet throw.
Backgrounds and Angles-
Keep in mind, your big day is about you. Many times, backgrounds in your photographs divert the viewer's attention away from the bride. They will remove "something" from your photos. Keep backgrounds as basic as could be expected under the circumstances.
Fascinating angles are what keeps the pictures of an expert Indian photographer Melbourne from resembling the pictures. Everybody understands what a wedding resembles from 5 feet 6. You may see your photographer on the ground or climbing trees. Try not to snicker at him. That is the reason he gets paid well for working effectively.
Well, that’s it for "Indian Photographer Melbourne for Bride Guide to Make Your Wedding Day Go Smoothly". Congratulations on your big day. Now let’s make those memories last!
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Muslim Wedding Photographer Melbourne takes the fine photos that closing for lots years.
Is it genuine or now no longer which you are trying to find a marriage photographer who can trap the tremendous snapshots of your wedding ceremony perfectly? There are many advantages to recruiting a Muslim Wedding Photographer Melbourne. By recruiting an professional photographer with ok revel in, you could assure which you get the pleasant nature of photos. A respectable photographer is aware of approximately mild and portions predicted to take eye-getting pics. Wedding photos are exceptional on account that they empower people to treasure durable reminiscences. A professional photographer will assist trap pics in an excellent manner conceivable. A wedding ceremony photographer is aware of which 2nd he desires to trap. He can assure that each 2nd is stuck such that you can re-revel in the ones mins while you test the images out. Great Wedding Photo Booth Ideas A virtually imaginative technique for shooting people at weddings may be some thing virtually creative like a picturegraph corner. Something like that is usually easy to installation and could perform a little terrific matters on the gathering. The traffic will need to picturegraph themselves in a greater loosened up manner than having a photographer of their face. Also, all people loves picturegraph stalls. This is the factor you could depart for people to apply on my own at the same time as you're as but shooting. Another Vendor As managing a marriage celebration is some thing confounding to do, the ones arranging the event want to have quality statistics approximately top-notch manufacturers and traders for the event. Things could be drastically greater it's far worried to difficult whilst no professional coordinators. Relatives regularly participate withinside the complete cycle, but they do not necessarily, in each case, have the foggiest concept wherein to appoint the essential administrations. Luckily, an done photographer usually is aware of what to do and wherein to tune down the pleasant administrations. Long stretches of encounters and huge preparations of customers have made them very certified for helping the own circle of relatives with monitoring down the pleasant sellers. The Timeline An professional photographer is aware of what quantity of time is needed for the images meetings. Various people would possibly orchestrate the event contrastingly as in keeping with their societies and conditions. Be that because it may, recruiting help will likewise help the own circle of relatives in managing the timetable nicely to keep away from unwanted circumstances, which include insufficient loved ones and incorrect timing for photoshoots. Accordingly, it's far essential to attract withinside the photographer at some stage in exercise to prevent the above problems. It is included to deduce that adaptability is what gifted photographers must offer. Tragically, now no longer all conspicuous names withinside the subject can make sure this component, and it's far becoming to study the accessibility of the assist a long way early. Different selections are accessible, and the marriage will go along with a exquisite choice as they characteristic the importance of timetable adaptability. Individual Assistant One greater benefit of using an professional Pre Wedding Photography Melbourne is that they may likewise act as an man or woman proper hand. As a expert business enterprise that has stuck many reminiscences on severa occasions, it is something however an surprising that they are able to oversee and set up the valuable problems that the own circle of relatives regularly ignores. Staying privy to the plan is essential, and they are able to cross approximately as an man or woman proper hand so that it will assist each the female of the hour and the husband to be.
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