INSIDE

The project unfolded during the first lockdown in The Netherlands. During that time school closures discouraged contact with friends for young people: the pandemic hit the youth as much as any other generation. Yet we collectively fail to recognise the non-physical toll it takes on the youth that is growing up in unforeseeable times. INSIDE (2020) are portraits of various Dutch girls and boys in their mid-teens. The teenagers allow us into their private rooms and offer us a brief but powerful glimpse into the space they have been confined to during this essential phase of their social and personal development. The young people sit there and look at us. They seem almost cautious, reserved, somewhat skeptical. It is only a part of the room, what we see. But it is a view into into their own world. Something intimate. The bedroom is the stage.