Future Kids

Leila, Coco, Mo, and İlhan are four young people who grew up in Germany as children of Muslim immigrants from Turkey and Palestine. Since 2016 Doro Zinn collaborates with them on questions of identity, belonging and representation.

 Leila, Coco, Mo, and İlhan are four young people who grew up in Germany as children of Muslim immigrants from Turkey and Palestine. Since 2016 Doro Zinn collaborates with them on questions of identity, belonging and representation. Between gentrified neighborhoods and tower blocks, Hip Hop and heritage, social benefits and faith, they navigate identities shaped by migration histories and contemporary realities. 

Their parents came to Germany as so-called ‚Gastarbeiter:innen‘ — part of a post-war labor force that was never intended to stay. While some migrant communities have been gradually accepted into the social fabric of Germany, millions of Muslims still face systemic exclusion and racism.

Through documentary photography, intimate portraits, archive material, and personal contributions from the protagonists — including texts and rap songs — Zinn co-creates a multilayered narrative. With Leila, Coco, Mo, and İlhan, they challenge inherited stereotypes and reclaim space for more nuanced, self-defined stories of a generation that is often spoken about, but rarely heard on its own terms.