Maria Ridge
Eleven
My project is a collaborative work which explores the phase of childhood directly preceding the teenage years. Being Eleven represents a key stage in personal development - when children begin to develop a strong sense of self and personal identity. The children featured in the series are eleven-year-old, fifth-class students from a local primary school. Influenced by participatory approaches to research, I took an immersive and reciprocal approach to my project – offering the children the opportunity of empowerment and self-representation. For each sitting, children came in pairs, with one child acting as assistant. A shutter release cable was offered to each participant to further ground them in their space and to empower them in the two-way process of portraiture.
Josh Daly • Esther Martinez • Thomas Murray • Travis Nguyen • Maria Ridge • Krastyu Vasilev •
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