Teen girls’ self-portraits are raw, intimate, honest

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:08:16

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The Girl Project

'Please Read (if at all possible)'

In her new book, “Please Read (if at all possible): The Girl Project,” photographer Kate Engelbrecht shares self-portraits and diary-like entries submitted by 13- to 18-year-old girls across the country. The photographs and in-their-own-words confessions reveal that, despite media portrayals to the contrary, being a teenage girl isn’t that different today than it was decades ago.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:08:34

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The Girl Project

Getting an accurate picture

Engelbrecht started “The Girl Project” in 2007 and ultimately sent Kodak single-use cameras and questionnaires to 5,000 teenage girls across the United States. The questionnaires were based on the Proust Questionnaire, which has the objective of revealing a person’s true personality.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:08:49

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The Girl Project

Opening up

Young women of entirely different backgrounds, races and faiths provided handwritten answers to questions such as, “What is your idea of happiness?” “Tell me one thing about you that nobody else seems to get?” “What are you afraid of?” and “What are you most proud of?”

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:09:04

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The Girl Project

'Incredibly innocent'

“The most surprising thing to come out of the project, to me, is that these girls are incredibly innocent,” Engelbrecht said. “They’re innocent in a real and beautiful way.”

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:09:17

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The Girl Project

Weighty issues

Dozens upon dozens of images sent in by girls across the United States revealed their concern with their weight and body image.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:09:31

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The Girl Project

A focus on body image

“It’s amazing how common it was” for photographs to center around body-image issues, Engelbrecht said. “It sort of crosses race and ethnicity and economic background. It’s such a big part of being a young woman – which then, of course, translates into being a woman.”

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:10:08

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The Girl Project

Dreaming, thinking, going

In a handwritten submission featured in the book, one girl wrote: “I’m a dreamer, I’m a thinker, I want to go places, and see the world.”

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:10:30

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The Girl Project

They're not alone

“A lot of themes come through in the 27,000 pictures we got back,” Engelbrecht said of “The Girl Project.” “Girls are saying and thinking and going through very, very similar things. Maybe that’s not so surprising to us as adults, but I think it would be surprising to them.”

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:10:44

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The Girl Project

Revealing what matters

In answer to the question, “What are you afraid of?” many girls shared a deep-seated fear of loneliness. And in response to the question, “Tell me one thing about you that nobody else seems to get,” one girl wrote, “I believe I’m more experienced and intelligent than people understand.” Another wrote, “I’m tougher than I look. Seriously.”

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-10-13 10:11:04

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The Girl Project

'Looking for something special'

Many of the girls’ photographs centered on themes of love and romance. “Not sex. Love,” Engelbrecht said. “This was huge-huge-huge. There was so much there about love and being loved and the desire to give love. They’re looking for something really special, which is so contrary to how the media makes it out to be.”

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