This series of portraits as indicated by its title attempts an approach to the photographic representation of young people from 20 to 35 years of age. This attempt is situated close to the Central European tradition of the decade of the 20s and the 30s ‘New Objectivity’. Specifically, in an encyclopedic approach to photography that was expressed through the systematic photographing-typology- of single individuals of various age, profession and social groups. Additionally, the white environment where the photographed subjects are placed as well as the direct approach of the photographers connote the iconographic codes of the postwar photographic production in the genre of portrait. Accordingly, the viewer is trapped from the models body geography, the details revealed of the freedom they have to select their clothes to pose by placing their hands on their face, their waste or behind their backs and finally to expose or cover their scars or their tattoos. Yet, we must not forget that this conscious choice of pose communicates their cultural identity. This is exactly the area where the typological aspect of this photographic series is situated.
Natassa Markidou
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