Museums Special Section
Teenage Girls Explore Their Lives Through a Camera’s Eye
Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times
COMPARING NOTES From left, Jasmine Gregory, intern; Natasha Adams, Nalijah Trammel and Juliet Martinez.
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TWO months ago, a dozen teenage girls with no formal photography experience were given professional cameras and told to document their world growing up in New York City. Right away, the results were startling.
One girl who had grown up in foster families decided to photograph those families. Another girl, who was born with a physical disability, decided to document children in similar circumstances. A girl who had lost her mother suddenly at age 11 found herself taking pictures of mothers and daughters together on the street at surreptitious angles, with the lens implying the longing, envious eye of a motherless child.
Tiara and the other girls are part of a program called Expanding the Walls at the Studio Museum Harlem.
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