#especially when kim da-eun is present

[mrgriffiths]

Like, what do you mean Kim Da-Eun and Kreese are in cahoots right now? Where is Terry?!?

Kreese: "Cobra Kai is back."

The students are gonna fall from the sky, I suppose..

Sigh.

[legacytaughtarchived]

𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗬  &  𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗥  𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗘  𝗜𝗡  𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡  𝗙𝗜𝗩𝗘

    -     mercy  was  moved  to  the  valley  not  long  after  the  all  valley  tournament  and  only  a  few  days  after  kreese’s  arrest,  with  a  promise  that  everything  they  had  been  working  for  was  finally  starting  to  happen.     they  are  also  there  to  help  assist  silver  ( @pathpain​ )  with  the  other  teenagers  of  cobra  kai,  to  show  his  methods  do  make  champions.

    -     mercy  has  not  seen  their  father,  mike  barnes,  since  they  were  put  under  silver’s  guardianship  at  twelve  years  old  due  to  the  physical  abuse  they  had  sustained  whilst  living  in  mike’s  home,  but  become  legally  emancipated  at  fourteen.     however,  they  did  legally  change  their  name  to  mercy  terrance  silver  not  long  after  their  move  to  the  valley.

    -     mercy  is  a  very  willing  student,  always  wanting  to  learn  more  skills  and  is  very  open  to  anyone  with  new  things  to  teach.     they  are  incredibly  welcoming  to  any  new  senseis  that  come  into  the  dojo,  especially  intrigued  by  chozen  when  he  is  undercover,  and  of  course,  sensei  kim  when  she  joins  the  dojo.      they  always  feel  like  they  have  more  to  learn  that  they  can  adapt  into  their  own  style,  the  base  of  their  style  being  the  same  as  silver’s,  tang  soo  do,  their  fighting  style  is  very  similar  to  his.

    -     mike  did  call  mercy  after  daniel  &  chozen  went  to  go  and  see  him,  trying  to  get  them  to  listen  to  what  they  had  told  him.     but  of  course,  they  had  no  interest  in  what  he  had  to  say,  even  if  he  did  try  to  explain  that  he  sorted  his  life  out  and  he  was  a  better  person.     it  was  all  a  little  too  late  and  if  anything,  it  just  cemented  how  much  they  didn’t  want  their  father  in  their  life.     doesn’t  mean  that  they  weren’t  rattled  to  hear  from  their  father  again,  it  definitely  had  them  shaken  especially  since  he  now  knows  that  they  are  in  the  valley  again.

    -     mercy  was  at  the  water  park  with  the  other  cobra  kai  lot  ;  unless  it’s  with  the  dynamic  with  yasmine  yates  ( @karaslay​ ),  then  they  are  there  with  her.     however,  they  do  not  get  involved  in  the  fight  at  the  water  park,  thinking  it’s  causing  a  bad  name.     it  more  just  showcases  how  they  still  feel  on  the  outside  amongst  the  others  at  the  dojo.

   -     mercy  was  excited  to  meet  sensei  kim  da - eun  ( @allvalley​ ),  excited  to  learn  from  someone  new  and  knows  she  will  help  them  reach  the  next  step.    however,  they  definitely  were ��made  to  work  for  it,  was  called  out  on  constantly  holding  back  despite  having  the  strength  and  power  there,  for  being  distracted  and  unfocused.

    -     despite  being  a  champion  over  on  the  east  coast  &  helping  silver  with  the  students,  mercy  does  let  tory  take  point  because  she  is  the  all  valley  tournament  and  they  never  wanted  her  to  feel  like  they  had  been  brought  there  to  replace,  more  to  help  and  challenge  her  in  a  way  that  would  be  beneficial  to  both.     meaning  that  mercy  was  not  present  whilst  sensei  kim  took  over  topanga  karate.

    -     mercy  is  used  to  training  long  and  hard,  unfazed  by  the  more  intense  training,  due  to  probably  knowing  about  the  sekai  taikai  for  a  long  time.     they  have  grown  up  hearing  about  this  competition  from  silver,  knowing  this  was  why  they  had  been  training  this  long  and  hard  since  they  were  first  told  at  eight  years  old.     depending  on  thread / dynamic,  mercy  did  the  leader / follower  exercise  with  either  nina  ( @allvalley​ )  or  river  ( @rivershe​ ),  but  this  can  also  be  open  to  plotting  for  more  dynamics.

    -     the  sekai  taikai  was  something  that  they  were  trying  to  stay  focused  on,  knowing  that  they  would  do  anything  to  help  prove  that  cobra  kai  was  the  best.     however,  mercy  understood  the  choice  to  have  tory  fight  in  the  sekai  taikai  presentation  since  tory  is  the  all  valley  female  champion.     however,  when  tory  disappeared  during  the  boys  fight,  they  were  definitely  surprised  and  angry  that  devon  was  chosen  to  fight  in  tory’s  place.     they  never  assumed  anything,  but  they  believe  if  they  had  fought,  things  have  turned  out  differently.      as  much  as  they  know  that  sensei  kim  had  a  say  in  the  fighter,  their  anger  is  more  directed  at  silver  since  they  did  everything  for  his  legacy  but  felt  like  he  didn’t  fight  for  them.

    -     mercy  absolutely  recognised  that  something  strange  was  happening  during  the  presentation,  like  eli  not  scoring  a  point  despite  hitting  kenny  within  bounds,  the  illegal  strike  not  getting  him  disqualified,  samantha  striking  below  devon’s  shoulder  and  samantha  blocking  the  strike  from  devon.       they  did  absolutely  recognise  the  technique  that  kenny  used  to  win  his  fight  against  eli,  knowing  they  were  taught  it  due  to  also  being  of  small  stature  and  worrying  about  their  own  lack  of  strength,  and  have  only  ever  used  it  once  during  one  of  the  worst  fights  with  mike  when  they  were  twelve  to  try  and  get  away.     they  did  not  believe  it  was  a  fair  win  and  definitely  a  misuse  of  that  technique,  despite  understanding  fighting  to  win  and  taking  out  an  opponent  in  one  strike.     mercy  did  not  think  they  had  to  show  brutality  to  win  the  presentation  and  would  have  completely  understood  if  kenny’s  fight  had  been  a  reason  for  cobra  kai  to  not  be  invited  to  the  sekai  taikai.

    -     mercy  didn’t  mean  to  witness  the  lesson  that  sensei  kim  was  pulling  on  tory  with  the  stone,  they  didn’t  interrupt,  despite  something  screaming  at  them  to  stop  it.     but  they  were  definitely  concerned  for  tory  ( @vypcr​ )  get  home,  unsure  of  what  to  say  or  even  if  anything  they  could  say  to  make  it  happen.

    -     despite  thinking  a  fight  isn’t  worth  it,  mercy  is  present  at  the  cobra  kai  dojo  fight  against  the  miyagi - do  and  eaglefang.     they  may  be  having  doubts  or  their  own  questions  about  everything  going  on,  but  in  the  end,  they  are  always  going  to  prove  their  loyalty  and  fight  to  defend  their  home  and  legacy.     depending  on  dynamic  &  thread  could  depend  on  who  they  end  up  fighting,  but  definitely  can  see  a  fight  between  mercy  &  eli  ( @pointmoskowitz​ ),  open  to  anything  else.

    -     even  though  it  would  appear  that  they  were  having  no  reaction  to  the  video  that  was  playing  on  the  screens  of  silver  admitting  to  cheating,  mercy  was  absolutely  crushed  at  it  and  could  barely  look  at  him  when  he  was  speaking,  not  answering  and  attempting  to  stay  in  control  as  anger  takes  over,  unsure  on  how  to  think  about  anything  that  was  being  said.     they  can’t  help  but  wonder  if  he  had  ever  paid  for  any  of  their  victories  or  what  else  could  have  been  lies.     silver  was  someone  they  had  always  looked  up  to,  spoken  about  with  high  praise  and  whilst  they  knew  the  kind  of  man  he  was,  this  all  was  too  much  for  them.

    -     mercy  won’t  admit  it,  but  they  almost  wanted  to  see  daniel  larusso  ( @senseibalance​ )  win  the  fight  with  silver.     their  anger  towards  him  clouding  their  loyalty  and  wanting  him  to  lose  for  once,  unable  to  buy  his  way  out  of  this.     they  avoided  looking  at  him  or  sensei  kim,  just  staying  focused  on  the  fight.

    -     whilst  mercy  may  not  have  their  jacket,  they  did  pull  off  a  silver  necklace  that  had  a  small  snake  charm,  something  they  had  been  giving  after  winning  their  first  champion  title  and  had  never  removed,  tossing  that  at  silver  instead.     it  was  a  move  out  of  anger  that  they  will  end  up  regretting,  but  it  felt  right  in  the  moment.

    -     mercy  absolutely  did  their  very  best  to  avoid  their  dad  when  they  walked  out  of  the  dojo  to  find  him  there  with  johnny  lawrence,  they  did  not  want  to  talk  to  him  and  felt  like  it  was  just  the  last  hit  in  a  long  line  of  hard  hits  that  they  had  gotten  over  the  day.

     -      mercy  has  two  paths  ahead  of  them,  either  a )  join  miyagi - do  and  do  things  the  right  way,  because  fundamentally  they  never  actually  wanted  to  hurt  people,  they  want  to  win  but  don’t  want  to  cause  pain,  or  b )  full  on  cobra  kai,  completely  twisted,  full  villain  era  &  trying  to  avenge  the  man  they  consider  their  father.      honestly  it  would  depend  on  who  manages  to  break  through  to  them  first  after  the  shock  of  silver’s  reveal  happens.

[drivingsideways]

Melo is My Nature Review

Well, as usual, I’m late to the party! I picked up 2019′s Melo is my Nature/ Be Melodramatic with some trepidation since I was (am!) still smarting a bit from the disappointment that’s Hospital Playlist S2, and I wasn’t quite ready for another. 

I’m so glad I gave it a chance! While it isn’t a “perfect” series- in the nature of the world *sigh*- its combination of quirky, clever, self-aware humour and heartfelt performances won me over from the first episode. 

More thoughts under the cut (along with some spoilers)

I’m very fond of ensemble dramas that love their characters, and “Melo is my Nature” does that very well. Perhaps a little too well, to the point that you feel the writers letting themselves be more than a little indulgent during the middle stretch of the episodes. But I can’t complain too much, because yes, I know the feeling!  “Side characters” that refuse to stay in the lane and take over the narrative are also my favourites, as a writer and a viewer. I loved, loved, loved Lee Joo-bin as the flighty-but-amazingly-smart Lee So-min; that felt like such a delightful  clap-back against the prevailing sentiment that often goes against young, successful women and the ridiculous levels of expectations of them, in how they need to perform gender and  femininity and smartness. I loved that (like Emma! There’s a lot of Jane in this series!) the writers managed to make her likeable even though they never disregard her flaws or its consequences.

 Another performance/ character that I totally adored was Baek Ji-won as Jeong Hye-jeong, the industry maven who may be (?) a nod to Kim Eun-sook, I suppose! I was afraid at some point that they’d just trash her character, by making her a little too ridiculous in an unkind way, but I found some of the loveliest scenes involved her- like the one where she tells Jin-joo to do the work, but not be too successful. In the end, there was a love and fondness for her, a genuine empathy, that really was core to what made this show so successful. 

Shout out also to two of the weirdest characters I’ve watched, but thoroughly loved- Heo Joon-seok as Director Dong-gi & Lee Ji-min as Nutritionist (?) Da-mi. I absolutely adored that the only wedding in this series is between these two, and they do it in a completely predictably-unusual way. 

Re: the “main” characters, I loved all of them without exception, though some more than the others :) One of the things I love about the show is how real and present the three female leads feel; they feel like whole, entire people rather than caricatures of them, even when the show reaches almost unusual levels of quirky. I love that a through-line of the narrative is how important women’s labour is- to themselves. The work they do, which is acknowledged as a part of their identity rather than just something they do to pay bills (though of course there’s acknowledgement of that aspect too!),  their hunger to do it well and for it to matter- all of that is portrayed in a way that’s charming  but still taken very seriously. And the way you know that its taken seriously is in the things they focus on- how Oh Jin-joo struggles to write alone, and how Han-joo’s learning to be someone’s mentor while struggling with her own insecurities, and how lost Eun-jung feels, when work which was supposed to give her purpose fails her in a time of crisis, and how unmoored she feels without it. 

Re: the romance- I’m someone predisposed to dislike heterosexual romance, especially at the present moment, so it’s always with a great deal of hesitation that I start watching shows that I know have a large romance component. It’s always a bit of a coin toss for me whether the show will end up making me hate the romance or just about tolerate it. I rarely expect to *like * it.  So “Melo is my Nature” was a pleasant surprise!  This is  one of the few series where I felt the writers put in the work to sell the “main romance” of the show. You get to know the Oh Jin-joo and Beom-soo in sharply etched sketches before they move into the romance part (with a lot of tongue-in-cheek meta humour about the formulaic nature of tv romances). I genuinely felt that thrill of  “oh this could go platonic or romantic and I would like either” slowly ease into “oh my god these two are MEANT TO BE”, because the Romance is clearly in the all the ways they are NOT meant to be, but also, very, very definitely are. DELICIOUS. Just my cup of Jane Austen in a different context/ time.

Through most of the show though, my heart was divided between two characters- Jeon Yeo-bin’s stellar Eun-jung and Han Ji-eun’s pitch perfect Han-joo. Jeon Yeo-bin brought edginess, dark humour and a deep, almost- inconsolable grief to Eun-jung. Some of the stand out scenes of the entire series are hers: the moment where she watches herself on video talking to an imaginary person, and the moment she breaks down in front of the psych after talking about her mother. Watching this show, it really felt like- oh, she’s a star. Consider me sold on her for life (though, no, I will not watch Vincenzo unless there’s a Hong Cha-young supercut out there, in which case, please put it in my eyeballs now)

Han Ji-eun, imho, actually pulled off the toughest performance, because I think Han-joo’s strength of character is so often concealed by her “silliness” (in a similar vein to So-min’s), and that often makes her someone you’d overlook or not take seriously.  But god, she broke my heart, from the scene in the first episode where she’s sitting alone at a table after a rough day and watching her horrible ex live his best life to the hilarious and excruciating  “Oppa” scene, to the one where her kid is quite unconsciously cruel to her in the way kids can be. I was disappointed in the way they dropped the “reveal” about whom she’s dating in the last episode- not that I wanted her to be in an romance with Jae-hoon, god, NO- but it felt quite clunky.  This is one of the two complaints I have with the show. 

The second one is that starting from the middle, episodes began to noticeably feel like scenes/ sketches spliced together. Each scene is, within itself, perfectly written and performed, but the seams between the stories began to show. I felt one of the main reasons was that Eun-jung’s trauma tonally felt like it belonged in another show, but instead it had to get stitched into the mostly happy/ frothy storylines of the other characters. Sure, we had Hae-joon and his girlfriend’s terrible relationship, but the show had an easier time integrating that by way of Han-joo.

That said, I love how clever this show is! I love that it loves its own cleverness and can’t resist the urge to show it off- from all the meta references, in-universe jokes, and oh, that entire episode devoted to farting, complete with a song about it,  which I think maybe my fave episode of the series. A great look at the place of performance in intimate relationships (and how the women bear the burden of it more than the men), but coming at it from a place of compassion and humour rather than anger. Love that choice, for the show and us! 

I think @rain-hat mentioned in a comment here or twitter that Melo feels like a part of a triangle of shows along with Run On and Search : WWW.  I’m inclined to swap out Run On for Rookie Historian, or huh, maybe change the triangle for a quadrangle? Rookie Historian dares to imagine a past where our protagonist is (mostly) unshackled by the patriarchy and in the “modern” ending to its main heterosexual romance, reminds us that people have always found ways to find joy and thrive outside the rigid bounds of society. Search: WWW goes about it in the opposite direction- placing us in a present/future where the patriarchy doesn’t  and hasn’t ever mattered. Melo, I think, doesn’t quite do that, but in common with both these shows, it refuses to focus on the trauma of living under such structural violence, and instead talks about how we all (irrespective of gender) can find a way to remain unbroken by it. And while both Search:WWW and Melo do well at queer-platonic relationships as an alternate to the heterosexual project, it’s Run On, I think, which goes furthest there- firstly because though ostensibly structured around a het romance, that romance turns out to be falling in love with yourself/ loving yourself;  secondly because it’s most explicitly queer in the choices that the characters make and the lives that they choose for themselves- Min-joo & May are each others darlings and will be for life, Yeong-hwa and Ki Seon-gyeom are allowed a tenderness in their friendship that feels like an explicit repudiation of toxic masculinity, and of course, you have May being asexual, but not aromantic, and Goh Ye-jun’s whole arc of accepting himself as a gay man, and finding acceptance of that identity from others. 

Anyway! tl;dr would recommend (and have recommended!) Melo is my Nature to anyone fond of women, clever story telling and also ridiculously happy songs.

[malaysiankpopfans]

10 K-DRAMA LADIES WHO SERIOUSLY KICK ASS

Meet your new girl crushes!

Gone are the days where damsels in distress are the most common trope in K-dramaland. Instead, characters who are or become strong women who speak their minds have become the trend. While there’s no shortage of inspirational leads to admire, characters who can literally kick ass are especially girl crush worthy. Check out some highly capable women who are forces to be reckoned with here.

Gang Seo-hae — Sisyphus: The Myth

As a survivor living in a war-ravaged future, Gang Seo-hae (Park Shin-hye) has learned how to fight for her life. Sisyphus just recently began, but we’ve already seen Seo-hae exhibit close combat fighting and a variety of shooting skills. It’s such a refreshing change to see the female lead save the male lead in her quest to save the world. She’s aware that she’s putting her life on the line, but she remains confident and optimistic. How badass is she when she says “I’m not going to die today” ?!

Seo Yi-kyung — Sweet Home

Sweet Home’s Seo Yi-kyung (Lee Si-young) is a character created for the series and not in the original webtoon, but her character is essential and much loved. As a former firefighter, Yi-kyung makes smart decisions to keep the residents as safe as possible and displays leadership. She shows bravery and volunteers herself for dangerous missions despite her personal circumstances. One of Yi-kyung’s most amazing moments is when she’s fighting the spider monster in the vents. Oh, and did we mention her amazing ripped muscles?

Do Ha-na — The Uncanny Counter

Do Ha-na (Kim Se-jeong) is a Counter who has super strength and is able to sense evil spirits from far away in The Uncanny Counter. Leaping through the air and fighting demons is routine for this Counter. Although she appears a bit gruff at first, we see that she suffers from guilt and trauma due to being the only person to survive the poisoning that killed her parents and sister. Tough and resilient, she’s also a source of support for So Mun who is the newest Counter on their team. Her elevator fight scene is especially memorable!

Do Bong-soon — Strong Girl Bong-soon

Strong Girl Bong-soon centers on Do Bong-soon (Park Bo-young) who has supernatural strength. While she has tried to keep her strength hidden for whole life, Bong-soon begins to stop caring as she pursues a misogynistic kidnapper. Disproving her cute and demure image, she beats up bad guys easily. Even though she thought her strength was more of a curse than a blessing, Bong-soon learns to no longer be ashamed of it. She’s definitely a superhero after our hearts.

Cha Hyeon — Search: WWW

Search WWW centers on three strong professional women, but the most badass of the three is definitely Cha Hyeon (Lee Da-hee). She always stands up for herself whether she needs to smack her cheating boyfriend upside the head or beat up a pervert in an elevator. Having a judo athlete background comes in handy when she’s laying down her own form of justice. She also proves herself to be a good friend when she helps Bae Ta-mi get revenge by wrecking someone’s car with baseball bats. You definitely don’t want to get on Cha Hyeon’s bad side.

Jang Man-wol — Hotel Del Luna

Hotel Del Luna also features a fiery main character in Jang Man-wol (IU). Prior to becoming the owner of a hotel for dead souls, Man-wol was a fierce soldier who slayed many people. While fulfilling her hotel owner duties for over 1,000 years, the Man-wol we see in the present is still bold and deftly overpowers bad spirits. She’s also not above scaring misbehaving humans while being dressed to the nines. If you have a ghost problem, you’ll want to hit up Man-wol.

Go Hae-ri — Vagabond

Vagabond is full of intrigue and action, and the same can be said for Go Hae-ri (Bae Suzy). As a covert operative for the NIS, Hae-ri has to lead a double life as a cover. Her character is shrewd and begins to piece the truth behind the fatal plane crash alongside Cha Dal-geon. Her special training comes in handy when apprehending opponents and escaping risky situations. On top of all this, she’s also loyal enough to go to jail in order to find out what happened to Dal-geon.

Go Ae-shin — Mr. Sunshine

Mr. Sunshine’s Go Ae-shin is both a courageous independence fighter and a member of the aristocratic class. With her parents dying while fighting for Korea’s independence, Ae-shin also takes up the cause on her own and learns how to skillfully use a rifle. As a noblewoman, she could easily turn a blind eye and enjoy the comforts her place in society comes with. However, she chooses to be brave and leap across roofs fighting against enemies and for her country’s sovereignty.

Cha Soo-hyun — Signal

Signal’s Cha Soo-hyun is a detective who leads a team that investigates long-term cold cases. As the drama has two timelines, one in 1989 and one in 2015, we see Soo-hyun as a timid rookie officer in 1989 and an experienced detective in 2015. Tackling dangerous criminals is just another day’s work for the empathetic detective. Even though it’s been 15 years since her mentor disappeared, she doesn’t give up searching for him. The world is a better place with officers like Cha Soo-hyun.

Ahn Eun-young — The School Nurse Files

Having the ability to see the hidden world of “jellies,” school nurse Ahn Eun-young gets rid of malignant jellies to protect students in The School Nurse Files. While she has unconventional weapons like a toy sword and BB gun, she’s an expert at exterminating harmful jellies. There are times when Eun-young dislikes her special ability and wants to be normal, but she ends up helping people even though she doesn’t get any credit for it. Eccentric but loveable, Ahn Eun-young sure knows how to kick jellies’ butts.

Which of these kickass characters are among your favorites? Watch all of them in action on Netflix!

[vanilla-cream-vn]

Presentation

Title: Her Private Life

Native title: 그녀의 사생활

Number of episodes: 16

Genre: comedy, romance

Country: Korea

Aired on: Wednesday and Thursday, one episode for each day

Aired: 10.04.2019

Where to watch: Viki, Fastdrama

It was based on the web novel entitled Noona Fan Dot Com by Kim Sung Yeon.

Synopsis

Sung Deok Mi is a talented currator in the Chaeum Gallery. She is hardworking and got some respect from her colleagues. However what they don’t know is that she actually lives a double life. At work she is the reliable employee but once she goes home, she is ShiAnIsMyLife a fangirl. Deok Mi is a fan of Cha Shi An, she even has a blog dedicated for him.  Ryan Gold is an American Korean who once was a famous painter, yet one day he announced his retirement and no one knows the reason behind it. Back to Korea, he is now the new director of Chaeum Gallery and works with Deok Mi. 

What do I think?

Actually, I didn’t think it would be my taste because I found the beginning quite boring but when I reach the third episodes, I loved it so much!!! It is a relatable drama, like Deok Mi we can be fan of Kpopstar, we liked our idol’s posts to support them, we tend to give them some gifts to encourage them… Anyway, everybody can recognise themselves through Deok Mi.  Plus, it has some sweet and smooth moment between the two main characters. Like her previous drama, Park Min Young portrayed a cute young lady with a funny side. 

It’s definitely a drama that I would recommend to you if you want some sweet and good drama for this spring. 

Here is one of the OST, you can find it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0O5sEO1Uu8t5Yc8sf3CLWr

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                                                     Characters

Actor/Actress: Park Min Young

Character’s name: Sung Deok Mi

Job: curator

More informations: Deok Mi is a devoted fangirl who manages to lead a double life. She is not only an exemplary employee she has one of the biggest Shi An’s fansite. She loves to take photos especially her bias photos.  Her father is a rock hound and her mom is a fan of knitting. Due to her father’s bankruptcy Deok Mi had to give up her chance to study abroad despite her mother’s willing.  She decided to move out from her family house to pursue her fangirl activities. Her home contains plenty of Shi An’s photo. Because of Cindy, she had to begin a fake relationship with her boss.

Actor/Actress: Kim Jae Wook 

Character’s name: Ryan Gold

Job: director of Chaeum Galley

More informations: Ryan was an orphan adopted by American parents. He comes back to Korea to become the new director of Chaeum Gallery and to know more about his past. Because his past is the related to the reason why he can’t paint anymore.

When he first met Deok Mi, he didn’t really like her. Thanks to some circumstances, he started to like her.

They first met in America.

He has an allergy of coffee this is why he used to order Latte with only milk.

Actor/Actress: Park Jin Joo

Character’s name: Lee Seo Joo 

Job: coffee owner

More informations: she is Deok Mi’s best friend. Like her BF she is a fangirl of Shi An.  Seo Joo is married and has a son too. After giving brith to her child, Seo Joo cant’ recognize faces well.

Actor/Actress: Ahn Bo Hyun Character’s name: Nam Eun Ki Job: Judo trainer

More informations: Eun Ki and Deok Mi grown up together. He was raised by her parents because her single mother couldn’t properly take care of him. However, her mother will go and see him, she even gives some money to thank Deok Mi’s mother for helping her raising her son. In the past, he once was a Judo medalist but now he is a judo trainer.  He loves Deok Mi but it is a one-side love. Eun KI never confessed to her since he cherishes their friendship and doesn’t want to lose it.  

Actor/Actress: Hong Seo Young Character’s name: Choi Da In  Actor/Actress: Hong Seo Young

More informations: like Ryan, she used to live in America. She has some hardships with critics about her art, but Ryan still supports her and advise her to not care about that. Like Nam Eun Ki, she loves her friend but still not confess to him since she didn’t want to lose their friendship. 

Actor/Actress: Kim Bo Ra Character’s name: Cindy/Kim Hyo Jin  Job: intern at Chaeum Galery

More informations: Hyo Jin is the former’s director daughter of the gallery. She also is a huge fan of Cha Shi An. Like Deok Mi has a blog about her bias. She actually start to work at the gallery to know more about Ryan-Deok Mi’s relationship. She even create a blog about them and her suspicions about the couple.

Actor/Actress: ONE

Character’s name: Cha Shi An

Job: member of White Ocean

More informations: he is a famous singer who has an interest in art. One of his favourite fan photos is from ShiAnIsMyLife. He lives in the same building as Ryan. Two of them seems to be closer and closer.

[gwynne-fics]

where to begin p4

one. “Oh,” Rachel said as Young-Do pulled the blankets over her. She was a little surprised that he didn’t just put back on his clothes. He laid next to her and kept his arm around her. “Oh.”

“Good?” he asked. He stroked his fingers up and down her arm as she stared at the ceiling. She didn’t know how to answer him for the longest time but he didn’t push her. For once, he seemed calm and...and he wasn’t pushing her.

“Good. I think.” She felt him smile when he bent down and kissed her shoulder. “But I already knew that about you. Hyo-Shin was very descriptive when we talked about our past lovers. I just...I just didn’t think this would matter. Men get bored and I’m...I’m obviously pregnant.”

Young-Do drew his fingers over her stomach before he kissed her forehead. “Men? Hyo-Shin doesn’t--”

Rachel put her fingers over his lips. “He cannot exist when we are like this.”

He smiled again and it was really sweet instead of that irritating smirk. “When?”

She looked away and felt unexpected shame wash over her. “You made me feel like it wasn’t work. It felt effortless. It hasn’t felt like that with any of my lovers.”

She had two before she married because her mother didn’t want her to be traumatized on her wedding night. Young-Do wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her easily on top of him. She blinked down and wished his eyes weren’t so kind in her moment of vulnerability.

“I’m glad you’ve had more than us because I’m glad I was able to discover what you need. I understand why you don’t want him in this room even as I am thrilled I was right about our compatibility in love.” He kissed her and she wished she felt guilty enough to stop him when he rolled her onto her back and began touching her again.

When he started kissing her neck and shoulders, Rachel closed her eyes. “How long do I have before you get bored of me?”

He stilled and when he raised his head, he looked almost angry. “That isn’t what this is.”

two. Go Nam-Il met him in the stables and bowed. “Lee Hyo-Shin never tried to leave his rooms,” he reported. He gave Young-Do an appraising look. “Were you successful?”

“Partially,” he muttered. “Hyo-Shin convinced her that I play around and I’m not serious when I take a woman to bed.”

Nam-Il made a noncommittal noise that Young-Do ignored. Nam-Il thought he should pick Da-Kyung to be his queen. She had the ability to do what he wanted but Young-Do knew she would never be approved by the court.

There was nothing he could to do convince Rachel except to show her how serious he was about her. If he bedded a woman and she didn’t want to be his concubine, he gave her several, expensive gifts, and parted ways amicably. He had been good to his gisaeng over the years, kind to all of his concubines, and didn’t dispute parentage if a child was conceived.

It irritated him that his reputation wasn’t full of the important information. And he wasn’t like he could complain to Hyo-Shin about it because he was wooing Rachel without her husband’s agreement.

Nam-Il filled him in on some of the minister movements and he felt like growling by the time he got to his room. He stopped short when he realized Da-Kyung was curled up with their children in his bed. He looked at Nam-Il and raised his eyebrows.

“She said it was important.” Nam-Il bowed and then left. Young-Do stared at Da-Kyung before he sighed and went over to her. He gently shook her shoulder and wondered if he should look into getting a bigger bed if his family intended to sleep with him nearly every night.

She slowly opened her eyes and smiled slightly before she sat up. She was careful not to wake the children. “Did it go well?”

“It’s still complicated. What’s wrong?”

“Chae-Mi’s father wants to know why she’s not pregnant. She was in hysterics about it after he left.”

Young-Do closed his eyes and sat down on the bed with her. “Chae-Mi is barely fourteen. She’s not pregnant because she’s a child. I don’t care how many years it’s been since her first issue. I can’t.”

“Ji-Sun and I tried to explain that, we really did, but you are about to become King and she needs to have influence with you. There’s more.”

He ran his hand over his mouth. “Fantastic. What else?”

“Ji-Sun’s family has the same question for her. And we all know you would never violate her like that,” she said before he could get worked up. “Ji-Sun is happy, flirting with all of the girls around us, and this harem really is a place of safety for the women who are apart of it. We know that. But as you desperately chase after your chosen queen, there are still consequences.”

“I know how the harem works,” he muttered as Da-Kyung put her hand on his leg. “I try to allow you your freedom. I’ll talk to Chae-Mi tomorrow. Is there a boy closer to her age showing any interest in her?”

“Chae-Mi doesn’t want a boy, she wants her husband, the king.”

This was going to be a problem, especially if Chae-Mi learned he was pursing Rachel. She hadn’t handled Eun-Sang or Da-Kyung well either. “How did Ji-Sun’s father visit her? After the last time, I was explicit that her father not have access.”

“So he sent her mother. She tried to explain that you trust her to go over all the financial documents submitted to you and the court. She tried to show her importance to you but they dismissed it.”

Young-Do groaned and got up to pace. After a few moments, he braced himself against his desk. “What Ji-Sun can do with numbers in her head is important. I don’t have the mind for it and I need her. I have five children already, Da-Kyung. I don’t need more.”

“You need a legitimate son, untainted from the rebellion, that can take the throne,” Da-Kyung was always so calm. Talking to her normally cleared his head and untangled the issues choking him. He knew, if she was bringing these things up, it had gotten bad and he hadn’t noticed. “Chae-Mi is young and, judging by her number of siblings, likely very fertile. She could give that to you. Ji-Sun could give that to you. You need to consider this from the perspective of the court. You are being crowned in less than a week. These questions are going to come up.”

He just didn’t want them to come up now. Not until after he had Rachel as his queen. Da-Kyung took his hand and turned him to face her. “Put Lady Rachel on hold until you are settled as King for a year. Perhaps another noblewoman will present herself as a viable option.”

“No. It has to be her.”

three. Rachel immediately got lost after the women’s court and ended up in a very lovely garden so she didn’t mind so much. It allowed her to think about the women she’d met and the kindness coming from Lady Da-Kyung and Lady Eun-Sang. Hyo-Shin told her everything he knew about the two women during their trip here.

She still hadn’t seen him today. Rachel wondered if he missed her at all.

“Eun-Hee? I swear, if you are in a tree again, I’m going to strangle you.” Rachel turned to find a very beautiful young man searching the garden. Rachel politely bowed when he noticed her. “Have you seen a child running through here? Eun-Hee is supposed to...are you Lady Rachel?”

“Yes. I apologize, my lord. I don’t really know anyone.”

“Bo-Na.” Rachel tried to hide her surprise as Bo-Na went back to searching for a child. Hyo-Shin mentioned that the great General Lee had given his daughter to the crown prince. “Yes, it is a girl’s name. I am sometimes a boy. Young-Do doesn’t care. Eun-Hee,” she called out. “Eun-Hee, your father will care if you don’t come to lunch. He wants to see you.”

“No! Do Not Want! No Appa!” Rachel jumped as she saw the child in the highest branches of the tree next to her. Bo-Na came up and glared at the child. “No, Omma. No Appa.”

“Your father is king. You have to go. You can yell at him all you want during lunch. I don’t care if you embarrass me. Let’s go.” There was a very intense staring contest before Eun-Hee pouted and climbed out of the tree. Rachel had to stifle her curiosity as they walked away.

“Eun-Hee is the only one who doesn’t get on with Young-Do.” The amused woman’s voice had Rachel turning to look at Queen Kyung-Ran. She stiffened and bowed deeply. “Bo-Na’s brother remarked that Eun-Hee might have a different father. Young-Do made her his concubine after her lover was killed on the battlefield by Kim Won. She doesn’t live in the palace.”

“That is such a sad story.” It seemed to her that Young-Do had turned his palace into a sanctuary for unwanted women. Da-Kyung was the daughter and wife of traitors. Eun-Sang was the spy that turned on the Kim family. Bo-Na was a general’s daughter who had lost someone important. Ji-Sun was lover of women that couldn’t conform to the rules between women and men. And Chae-Mi, a child used as a pawn to gain her family favor with the future king.

She had misjudged him. It felt like Hyo-Shin deliberately kept her from learning the good information about their new king. No wonder Young-Do was frustrated last night.

“I know he is trying to convince you to become queen.” She smiled tightly and started walking through the garden, clearly expecting Rachel to keep up. “It would be easier if he was willing to command you but that is not how he wants his marriages to start. He is searching for something in you and I worry he will be disappointed.”

Rachel had nothing to say to that. She touched her stomach and wondered if she would always hope Young-Do would come to her at night, only to be disappointed if he didn’t.

If she wasn’t married, she would agree.

But she was and it mattered.

four. Young-Do rubbed his head from where Eun-Hee headbutted him. “You have to punish her,” Bo-Na said as she gave her daughter a fierce look. Young-Do didn’t agree with tying the tiny girl to a chair but it did appear it was a usual consequence for headbutts from the way she glowered at her lunch. “She won’t respect you if you let this go.”

“Bo-Na, it’s okay. Eun-Hee doesn’t feel like I’m her father because we don’t live together. If I discipline her, that will only make it harder for her to accept me.” He put his hand on Bo-Na’s shoulder and she looked up at him. “Move back into the palace. Eun-Hee can be with her brothers and sisters. That way you aren’t making a big deal, once a week, to have lunch with me. You need to stop punishing yourself.”

“Hyungnim,” she whispered and closed her eyes painfully. Young-Do wrapped her in a hug and avoided the glare Eun-Hee gave him. “It still feels wrong. It feels like he’s going to show up on my doorstep and I have to be there when it happens. He...”

“Chan-Young would want you to be happy,” he whispered into her hair. “You know how my palace works. You know I would never come to you unless you asked me to.”

“Eun-Hee needs a father and you’re the best one around,” she said back, her voice muffled by his shoulder. “But I can’t leave her in the palace alone.”

“Then we are back discussing when you move into the palace.” He pulled back and looked at her. “Go think about it. I’m going to talk to Eun-Hee. It might go better between us if you’re not around to fret or push.”

Bo-Na hesitated before she nodded and produced a knife. He took it and once it was just him and Eun-Hee in the garden, he cut the cords holding her to the chair. He made sure he had a hold on her belt, because she immediately tried to run away from him.

When that didn’t work, she attacked him again. This time, he avoided all of her punches, headbutts, and kicks, until she exhausted herself. Finally, she plopped down on the grass in front of him and he sat down with her.

“Appa strong.”

“I am,” he agreed. “My daughter is strong too.”

She made a face. “No. No daughter. No Appa. Samchon said Appa no make Eun-Hee.”

“Is that important to you?” He loved watching his children’s faces because they were so animated. And Eun-Hee was so confused by his question. “Did I have to make you to be your father?”

“But...Appa make Woo-Young and Jung-Woo and Ji-Young and Joo-Young. No make Eun-Hee.”

“I didn’t make Woo-Young but I’m still his father. Your uncle thinks that the making is the most important part. I don’t think that. That’s why Omma asked me to be your Appa. That’s why Da-Kyung wants me to be Woo-Young’s father. Because I love Eun-Hee and Woo-Young even though I didn’t make them.”

Her little eyes filled with tears and she looked down at her hands. “Eun-Hee have no appa to make her.”

“Eun-Hee, the man who made you is gone. Omma told you about what happened during the war. It’s confusing isn’t it? Because Omma so sad?” She nodded and sniffled. Young-Do pulled out his handkerchief and gave it to her. She twisted it up in her little fingers and quietly cried.

“Omma sad all the time. Appa’s fault.”

“I know,” he said. He couldn’t argue with her on that. He blamed himself for what happened to Chan-Young, too. “I love you very much. You are my daughter. That is why everyone calls you a little princess.” She made a face at that so he tried something else. “Would you like them to call you a little prince, like your brothers?”

She sniffled and nodded. “Okay. I’ll make a decree tomorrow. Can I be your appa now?” She shrugged but didn’t agree. Young-Do knew that would be as far as he got with Eun-Hee for now. So he held out her arms and offered a hug. Probably, to both their surprise, Eun-Hee hugged him.

She laid her head on his shoulder and let him carry her out of the garden. He found Bo-Na pacing inside the corridor and tried to smile at her. “I think we have a truce.”

“Okay,” Bo-Na said quietly. “I’ll move into the palace.”

five. Rachel decided not to return to her Grandfather’s house when she was offered a lovely room inside the palace. She had a court lady send a message to Hyo-Shin explaining where she was. She knew her decision to make love to Young-Do would have consequences but she didn’t want to have any miscommunication with her husband.

She sat at a desk and considered what she might do. Young-Do invited her to eat dinner with his family. She just didn’t know what kind of introduction to expect. Her thoughts were in a whirl when a court lady announced Hyo-Shin.

Rachel stood and bowed slightly to him when he entered. She was relieved to see he wasn’t angry as he came up and kissed her cheek. “I was told you spent some time inside the women’s court. What did you think?”

“It’s what I’ve been missing,” she admitted. “A group of highly intelligent women who share their thoughts openly is a delight. I can understand why my mother missed it so deeply.”

“Have you changed your mind about what you want?” He cupped her cheek and looked at her seriously. Rachel briefly closed her eyes. She couldn’t explain the reason why she was so torn between him and Young-Do.

“I don’t know. If we stay here, our people will be given to someone else who might not care as much about the orphanage or work exchanges we implemented this year. I’d have to start a new household here in the city. As minister of justice, you will be incredibly busy, but there will be less for me to do.”

He sighed and nodded, which meant he’d seen the dilemma too. He encouraged her to sit down on the bed with him and she was a little surprised that he touched her stomach. Hyo-Shin mostly avoided the evidence of her pregnancy.

“I know you will be busy with our child but I also know that won’t be enough for you. Not when we’ll have a wet nurse to nanny them. I’m sorry. I don’t have a solution yet.” He started to pull away but she caught his hand. “What is it?”

“Are you excited for our baby? I’m...I’m not sure how you feel about this.”

“Yes. Of course I am.” He leaned in and kissed her. It stirred some longing in her and made her hope he would make love to her before he left. “Rachel we wanted this for so long. I’m sorry if my distraction has made you question that. I cannot wait to meet our little one.”

She bowed her forehead to his in relief. She didn’t mean to cry but a few tears leaked out. “Oh, Rachel, I’m so sorry.” Hyo-Shin wrapped his arms around her and Rachel pulled him into her to give a somewhat desperate kiss. A few minutes later he ended the kiss and looked down at her. They were laying on the bed and her dress was pushed up. “Now?”

“I need you,” she whispered. “Please?”

Hyo-Shin gave her a soft smile and bent down to kiss her more intently as he moved to touch her more intimately until there was a quiet knock on the door. A court lady announced, “King Choi Young-Do.”

[lost-langell]

DNA FAN CHANT GUIDE

Hello ARMY! I present to you the Fan Chant for DNA! (a guide)

Fan chants are really fun to learn and sing along to live performances that are uploaded from music shows on YouTube. It’s also useful for when you actually go and see BTS live. I was blessed enough to see BTS during the WINGS Tour in Chicago!

I am going to start off by saying that his fan chant is really easy! There are many times where you are shadowing what BTS sings.

I will break the guide down to the parts where there are chants only. I will also give you time markings that fall in line with the OFFICAL MUSIC VIDEO. So, fan lyrics videos will not be helpful here unless you want to see the full Korean lyrics.

I will also put the names of who is singing/rapping each part to make it easier to find in the video. Let’s get started fam!

 THE INTRO~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The intro the song starts at 0:29 seconds. As soon as the melody starts with the guitar that plays on the first beat. Begin to chant the members names on the beat. You will go through their names twice followed by BTS! This ends at 0:44 as Tae walks through the door

Begin Time- 0:29

Chant: Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, Jeon Jungkook, BTS!!

The second time around starts at 0:36 seconds. Chant their names again!

Chant: Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, Jeon Jungkook, BTS!!

End Time- 0:44 That’s it for the intro.

Tae will sing through his part until 0:58, he has no chants in his part

 J-HOPES PART~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hobi’s part begins at 0:59 as Tae lets go of his hand. His chant begins quickly as you are echoing what he is rapping. The echoed part is actually audible, so you can use this as a guide to start. His first musical phrase is totally repeated with the chant. Wait for Hobi, then follow

Chant: uli mannam-eun~~~

then: suhag-ui gongsig

His first phrase ends, and his second phrase begins at 1:01

Only one piece of the 1st line of the second musical phrase is echoed and that is…

Chant: yulbeob

The 2nd line of his second musical phrase is completely echoed here as

Chant: ujuui seobli

IF YOU FEEL LOST, REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN HEAR THE ECHO IN THE AUDIO

RAP-MONSTER’S 1st PART~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Joonie’s part begins at 1:06 and quickly follows J-Hopes rap. His chant is insanely easy. When he sings “take it, take it” at 1:10 you just chant along with him.

Chant: take it, take it.

Joonie’s part ends at 1:13

 Now you can take a break for a minute and admire Jungkook at Tae dance together. (My TaeKook feels were spilling over, let me tell you) It’s beautiful!!

 JIMIN AND JUNGKOOK’S PART- PRE-CHORUS~~~~~~~~

Jimin leads the pre-chorus starting at 1:28. The chants here are completely echoing the vocals so it is easy to follow. For Jimin’s lead into the pre-chorus you will echo the last word in both of his musical phrases

Chant: gyesog

This is echoed at 1:30 and 1:34!

At 1:36 Jungkook takes over the pre-chorus. He begins immediately and you must echo his first 2 phrases.

Chant: urin jeonsaeng-eodo~~~

then: ama da-eum saeng-edo

Do not chant his third phrase. The pre-chorus ends at 1:43

 CHORUS/HOOK~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

At 1:43 the chorus begins. You will only chant “BTS!” and “DNA!” here. The chorus begins with the word “DNA” but do not chant that there. You will only chant “DNA” once at the end of the chorus. You will chant “BTS!” 3 times on the beat AFTER you hear “DNA” for the 1st and 2nd time. Here…

Start chanting: “BTS! BTS! BTS!” on the beat after you hear “DNA” at 1:44 (This comes up really fast!)

Chant: BTS! 3 times again at 1:50 after you hear “DNA”

You finally chant: “DNA!” along with the boys at 1:58, and this is where the chorus ends

 SUGA’S PART~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Yoongi’s part begins at 2:00. His chant is short and easy. You are only going to echo the English phases he sings. Soooooo…

At 2:01 chant: this love~~~

then at 2:03 chant: real love

Then you can enjoy the rest of Yoongi’s cute rap until Rap-Monster takes over at 2:07

 RAP-MONSTER’S 2nd PART~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Joonie starts again at 2:07, you only echo him 2 times…

At 2:08 with “DNA”

And at 2:10 with “wonhaneunde”

That’s all the chanting you’ll do for his 2nd part that ends at 2:15

 JUNGKOOK AND SUGA’S PART~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jungkook only has the first musical phrase for his shared part with Suga. Listen very carefully. You are going to sing the last 2 words WITH him. So you will not be echoing this time. Towards the end of Kookies phrase starting around 2:16 he sings “lachige nolla” once he says it, it becomes easy to hear but it goes by so fast. Remember chant: lachige nolla WITH kookie.

Following this Suga immediately takes over at 2:17. He has the hardest chant to follow. It’s almost a complete sentence in Korean. D’: But I got you fam! The chant is a part of his second musical phrase. And starts at 2:22 when the boys have their hands on the chests. You have to chant this phrase with him. It goes~

Chant: malloman   deuddeon    salang-ilan   gamjeong-ikka

(followed by) oh yeah!

This is the chant broken down into the syllables: ma-llo-man deu-dde-on  sa-lang-ilan   gam-jeong ik-ka

I know I know I knooooooow, this part is crazy! That’s why I put plenty of space between the words. But it’s fun when you get it down.

Don’t forget to chant: Oh yeah! With the boys at 2:25

After this you can relax and enjoy Jin’s stunning visuals as his part comes in at 2:29. It ends at 2:43 when Jungkook and Jimin come back in for the pre-chorus.

 JIMIN AND JUNGKOOK’S PART- PRE-CHORUS 2nd TIME~~

This time Jungkook leads the pre-chorus starting at 2:43. The chants here are completely echoing the vocals so it is easy to follow. For Jungkooks’s lead into the pre-chorus you will echo the last word in both of his musical phrases. Just as we did before.

Chant: gyesog

This is echoed at 2:46 and 2:50!

At 2:52 Jimin takes over the pre-chorus. He begins immediately and you must echo his first 2 phrases.

Chant: urin jeonsaeng-eodo~~~

then: ama da-eum saeng-edo

Do not chant his third phrase. The pre-chorus ends at 2:57

 CHORUS/HOOK 2nd TIME~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

At 2:57 the chorus begins again. You will chant the same way you did the very first time. Only chant “BTS!” and “DNA!” here. The chorus begins with the word “DNA” but do not chant that there. You will only chant “DNA” once at the end of the chorus. You will chant “BTS!” 3 times on the beat AFTER you hear “DNA” for the 1st and 2nd time. Here…

Start chanting: “BTS! BTS! BTS!” on the beat after you hear “DNA” at 2:58 (This comes up really fast!)

Chant: BTS! 3 times again at 3:05 after you hear “DNA”

You finally chant: “DNA!” along with the boys at 3:13, and this is where the chorus ends for the second time

 BREAK DOWN/FINALE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We are reaching the end of the song here a 3:13. So chill out and enjoy the breathtaking visuals as the song slowly builds back up to drop the beat real hard for the finale. At 3:50 this is where the song gets LIT fam. So the beat drops and the dance break starts.

Right at 3:50 chant: DNA!~ followed by: La la la la la~ la la la la la~ chant with the boys, not after.

At 3:58 chant: la la la la la~ la la la la la with the boys again, and the finally…

DNA!!!!!! At 4:05

 And we’re done! We made it!

Remember ARMY, BTS loves hearing the fan chants, especially when they are not performing in Korea. It makes them feel like they are at home. It gives them comfort and they feel loved because international ARMY took the time to learn them. 😊 It’s also fun to chant along with K-ARMY at home too. Lol

 Thanks for reading if you made it this far. I love you fam! Oh! And if this was helpful please like and share! If there are any typos kindly let me know as well. I want to hear you screaming at your phones or computers when they finally do their first live stage on 09/21st Mnet Kpop!

This guide was made from the official post on the fan cafe! http://m.cafe.daum.net/BANGTAN/jbaj/397?

I also posted this on my BTS ARMY Amino page by the same name-DestinyLost

ANNYEONG!

[internetbasic9]

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

Nature

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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.

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

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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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LENS

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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LENS

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.”

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

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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

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.”

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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

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[terrence-silver]

I might be one of the select few who enjoyed the majority of s5 just for nostalgia and face-value factors🫣🫣 It was a trainwreck I couldn’t look away from, mainly because it provided Terry content😍 I want to know how beloved would fit into Terry’s lifestyle in s5? I’m also going to act like Terry didn’t go to prison🫣🫣

Beloved in S5 Terry's lifestyle? Hmm, lets see...

― I think the hallowed secrecy surrounding beloved jumps to an all time high around this time and if Terry can have one or two of his adult Sensei he's brought in, one of the members of The Fist look out for beloved as their personal bodyguards in the rare occasions he's not close to beloved, then so be it. Beloved doesn't have to approve of such a draconic arrangement (or any other Terry deems absolutely necessary) and Kim Da-Eun might think Terry is possibly misusing their Sensei for highly and inappropriately personal matters (and to tuck away his own weakness in the form of a person), but the way Terry sees it, and he can retort to her with this; he too is looking after his own legacy.

― But, see, in a state of all-out war, even if it is a street war between clashing factions, Terry will take measures pertaining to the situation at hand; beloved in a tinted, armored vehicle driven by a trusted chauffeur? Beloved chaperoned around? Beloved not appearing in any papers or media for purely tactical reasons? Heck, he might just peddle some ex's name in certain articles as elaborate illusory smoke and mirrors purely to throw off anyone out to strike at a vulnerability off of their track. Would Terry be malicious enough to endanger a past conquest (or maybe even several at once) to tactically protect the one he really loves and holds dear? Yes, he would be. All's fair in love and war.

― His students never really discover of beloved, his closest men know extremely little and while people might've spotted an odd companion close to Mr. Silver, the true nature of just what they are to each other is never made clear around this time. Someone vaguely astute enough might put two and two together, but if the issue is left murky deliberately, it is not because Terry's devotion isn't serious, it is precisely because it is very serious and while gang conflicts are raging on the streets, if he can hide away the blood of his blood and the marrow of his bone, he will. When he wins this war, which he will, beloved will be revealed as the consort they're meant to be.

― Everywhere beloved and Terry do bond and appear to together is an extremely intimate, private, bought out setting where nobody else is present. An emptied out restaurant for the evening. The highly secured estate grounds (with security only just doubling for his beloved) some secluded manor he has somewhere that nobody knows about or a luxurious mansion doubling as a safehouse. Can see him taking them to Shabbat service with him, but for the most part, beloved's life becomes tremendously lowkey --- and with good reason. When you've this many enemies and when you weave so many vendettas, can't hurt being analytical.

― Now, it is undoubted that Terry is arrogant and cocky and has no doubt in mind he has already won this conflict long before it ha even begun, but would he also be smart enough to have a plan B in place for beloved? A get-away for them in case a battle is lost, even though the whole war wasn't? Would he ensure they have copious amounts of cash waiting for them, some secluded high security place he owns and some very devoted people to look after them while he, say, gets out of jail and deals with his legal issues and then his enemies? Yes. He would. Terry takes care of his extremely well, especially in the face of adversity. Such are the benefits of being his. Such is his love.

― Don't worry, he'll be back, he says. This whole bullshit can't keep him down. He's gotten himself out of worse nonsense for far bigger reasons. And while the wait takes place, he ensures beloved lives well, just like beloved deserves to, taking care of his most prized, treasured possession, always staying in touch, calling and visiting and having conjugal meetings a dozen (and bribing guards for extra ones whenever he so deems fit) His only regret? The time they could've been together being irreversibly wasted. Someone's gonna pay for that. Someone's gonna pay for a every second he was robbed of being with beloved while he was spending time behind bars and spending time cutting down to size people stubbornly in his way.