Persona Project

For this project, I decided to capture the persona of the absurd materialism of New York City privileged youth. The girls in my pictures represent the majority of girls in private schools in New York who use New York City as their playground. While their lives may seem glamorous and fun, what has really happened is that their innocence has evaporated as they catapulted from 12 to 20 in their own minds.

From a first hand look, these images look like a group of beautiful girls getting ready for a fun night out. Yet when one sees these images, they might not guess that the girls in these photos are only 15 years old. The girls do "grown up" things, wear fancy expensive clothes, and have parentless Upper East Side apartments. I tried to capture the ridiculousness of their lives and how they may be negatively portrayed to outsiders.