Photographs by Doug DuBois
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...bois_captures_a_group_of_irish_teenagers.html
Jumping the Wall, Russell Heights, Cobh, Ireland, 2010.
The photographs in Doug DuBois’ book, My Last Day at Seventeen, which Aperture published in September, depict the youthful residents of the Russell Heights neighborhood in Cobh, a small seaside town in County Cork, Ireland. But they’re seen through a very specific lens—no adults appear to exist in their world, and the youths seem to playfully roam in an endless summer—in service of DuBois’ constructed coming-of-age narrative.
“The whole series is about growing up, that moment where you’re at the threshold of adulthood. You’re attached to a kind of innocence, but that’s disappearing,” DuBois said.
Left: Miya, Russell Heights, Cobh, Ireland, 2012. Right: Eirn on the Eve of her 18th Birthday, Cobh, Ireland, 2009.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...bois_captures_a_group_of_irish_teenagers.html
Jumping the Wall, Russell Heights, Cobh, Ireland, 2010.
The photographs in Doug DuBois’ book, My Last Day at Seventeen, which Aperture published in September, depict the youthful residents of the Russell Heights neighborhood in Cobh, a small seaside town in County Cork, Ireland. But they’re seen through a very specific lens—no adults appear to exist in their world, and the youths seem to playfully roam in an endless summer—in service of DuBois’ constructed coming-of-age narrative.
“The whole series is about growing up, that moment where you’re at the threshold of adulthood. You’re attached to a kind of innocence, but that’s disappearing,” DuBois said.
Left: Miya, Russell Heights, Cobh, Ireland, 2012. Right: Eirn on the Eve of her 18th Birthday, Cobh, Ireland, 2009.
http://aperture.org/shop/dubois-my-last-day-at-seventeen-books
