The Youth Project
By Nick Turpin
3 Oct 2008
My son Etienne plays with a sailing boat that I had when I was his age, he sets the rudder and the sails and pushes it out onto the lake near our house and watches it take its course, once it leaves his hand its direction is set, its on its own against the wind and eddies. I recall my late teens as a time of great passion, experimentation, debate, first sex, first drugs, trying on different personas for size until one fitted. Each generation faces its own fears, my mother brought me up during the cold war with the fear of nuclear armageddon and I in turn bring up my son under the shadow of environmental disaster. These pictures are about that time when you are deciding who you are going to be and what you are going to think, they are portraits of people in a state of change, about to set their rudders and sails and go.
4 responses
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Miriam Chacon said (3 Oct 2008):
Hi Nick! I´ve visited your personal site and I really like your style.Great images with a nice sense of composition, specially the street ones. Greetings from Spain (and my vote too)
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Michael Adams said (3 Oct 2008):
This is a wonderful series.
Brings back memories of my teenage years and the trials and tribulations that were involved! -
Spectre Photo gave props (8 Oct 2008):
This is wonderful..really good captures and each stands on its own and carries it's own story..Gets my vote!!
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Cosmin gave props (13 Oct 2008):
love the darkness
