Reliées

In this piece, I exploring the in-between space of adolescence and adulthood. Together we created a space of trust. Somewhere between documentary and staged scenes, Reliées reveals a discreet sisterhood and captures suspended moments.

Born in 1991, I belong to the millennial generation, but it’s toward Gen Z that I turned driven by a desire to understand what shapes young women

today in the construction of their identity.

This project was born from a need to connect:

to connect who I am with who I once was,

to connect women who didn’t yet know each other,

to connect adolescence with adulthood that unstable, vibrant in-between we pass through without always knowing who we are becoming.

Célia, Amaya, Exaucé, Luna, and Amina were discovered through street casting.

Five radiant young women who welcomed the project and my team with great generosity.

From the very first exchanges, solely through voice notes and texts, a form of closeness emerged almost as if it were meant to be.

An immediate bond, a gentle trust fragile, but foundational.

They shared their stories, their spaces, their daily rituals.

Their filmed bedrooms, their chosen clothes, their shared doubts.

From these intimate fragments, we reconstructed their worlds with a fidelity close to documentary.

On the day of the shoot, this connection took shape.

Even without having met before, a natural sorority emerged subtle, yet powerful.

There was listening, kindness, a kind of spontaneous collective intelligence.

Working as a team of women made this rare energy possible this attentiveness, this deep sense of care.

This project took time to build.

A slow, necessary time allowing genuine connection to emerge, mutual trust to form, sincere cohesion to grow.

It wasn’t just a shoot it was a human encounter.

It is also a desire to build bridges:

between documentary and fiction,

between the spontaneity of real life and the precision of a deliberate visual language,

between two stages of life,

and perhaps between two ways of being.

In each tableau, the young women appear suspended somewhere between movement and stillness, caught in a quiet pause.

A gesture waiting to happen, a gaze drifting away, a silent breath.

These are the in-between moments I wanted to capture those pockets of daily life where inner transformations speak without words.

This project is an ode to that search for self that defines adolescence in all its universality, fragility, and embodied truth.

A tribute to the girls we once were, the women we are, and those we are becoming.