Coming of Age

Naomi Fry writes about the photographer Justine Kurland, whose photographs of young girls are both lovely and menacing.

Talking to the 21-year-old photographer about puberty, pubic hair, and Rihanna.

First look at the Los Angeles Film Festival's Don't Come Back From The Moon, a movie based on Dean Bakopoulos’ 2005 book.

Naomi Fry writes about the photographer Justine Kurland, whose photographs of young girls are both lovely and menacing.

For years, the well-known photographer shot teenage girls in bucolic landscapes. When she found the photos again decades later, they had taken on a new valence.

Photographer Justine Kurland's seminal series imagines young women as fearless runaways, escaping their small towns and the societal constraints that kept them there.

Films you should have seen by now and those with important life lessons.

7,156 Likes, 42 Comments - The Solace 🥀 (@thesolaces) on Instagram: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower(2012) American coming-of-age drama film written and directed…”

“I see so many articles out there that are like female gaze photographer, and I’m like, no, I’m an artist and I take photos, and just because I’m a woman doesn’t mean I have to be labeled that way.”