#AdolescentContent

The protagonists of this project are four fifteen-year-old friends, Irene, Rebecca, Ferruccio, and Dimitri, portrayed cross this short phase of their life. The photos speak of the ineluctable will to grow mixed with nostalgia for childhood and innocence. They are a reworking of the feelings of the adolescent universe expressed through their social profiles; the photos taken intersect with the social images thus making them an interpretative background. The narration of oneself and one's world, both internal and external, the expression of one's emotions and opinions, and in general the formation of the ego during the adolescent years, today cannot be separated from the use of social media, and of Instagram in particular. Through this channel we privilege visual content in the form of photography or short videos, the "stories", which have a duration of only 24 hours to transmit to the virtual audience the moving snapshots of ordinary moments, made special in this way. The entire project (herein excerpt) consists of a greater number of screenshots to underline the overabundance of visual content produced by social media. The posts/stories tell firsthand the aspects that characterize this age: cheekiness, fragility, contradictions, the affirmation of identity, fashions, recognizing oneself in a precise image, the need to feel appreciated, that of expressing appreciation, feeling part of a group, and drawing attention to oneself, new discoveries, excesses, fears, feeling great, pains and promises of love. The entire project becomes a public multimedia diary and the choral story of young people who weave their relationships not only live, but also and above all in a virtual way, and talks about how recognizing and protecting each other is fundamental in this age in search of oneself. {Note: the project was carried out with the consent and with the liberation signed by the parents of the minors portrayed}