The artists involved examine adolescence in various ways. They ask what is characteristic of this phase of life, how people deal with the process of growing up and which problems can result from it. The artists partly reflect their own experiences and memories or refer to social and political contexts.

The artists involved examine adolescence in various ways. They ask what is characteristic of this phase of life, how people deal with the process of growing up and which problems can result from it. The artists partly reflect their own experiences and memories or refer to social and political contexts.

Ingar Krauss has been dealing with the topics of childhood and adolescence for some years already. In his work One knows nothing about the children (Von den Kindern weiß man nichts) he does not search in his poetic portraits the specific outward appearance, but an expression of the childrens inner lives and biographic mouldings. In his pictures one can detect along with the innocence a subtle moment of awakening sexuality. Krauss succeeds in capturing this stage between childhood and adulthood, the melancholy that is perceptible in this moment of transformation.

Marcelo Perocco reflects this in-between-stage the moment of innocence and purity as well as the desire for the unknown. He shoes the characteristics of a juvenile face, not yet moulded by the traces of time. What Perocco captures is the tenderness and frailness of eyes that havent seen much yet but are hungry and already show a premonition of the future.

Annabel Elgars photographs deal with the own ambivalent memory of the loss of innocence. Her mise-en-sccne of places and people radiates a certain uneasiness, which stresses the contradictoriness of this adolescent experience. Elgars pictures are complex and rich. A destroyed balloon, a scratch on the knee become the projection surface of the own memories.

In his mercilessly open and grotesque self-producement, Steven Tynan himself slips into the role of an innocent child. The helplessness of his naked or barely dressed overweight body makes room for interpretations and questions. Questions on the role and responsibility as a father, on sexuality and age, on vulnerability questions which he sees himself, as a man living in todays society, confronted with.

Evgeni Mokhorev, shooting star of the art scene of St. Petersburg, picks out as a central theme of his works the situation of Russian street children. The children produce themselves, and the artist takes the silent observers role. Mokhorev foregrounds the frailty of these children, who have to fend for themselves and are forced to live adults lives. This particular way of being grown up is also embodied in the postures these young people have adopted for the shooting.

This project is supported by: BKA-Kunst / MA 7-Kultur / Cyberlab

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Biographies:

ANNABEL ELGAR: *1971 in Aldershot (GB); 1999-2001 Royal Collage of Art; lives and works in London.

Exhibitions (selection): 1996 Zone Gallery, Newcastle / Islington Arts Factory, London / 1997 Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge / 2001 14 x 14, Mafuji Gallery, London / Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton / Assembly, Whitechapel, London / 2002 Urban Raw, Millais Gallery, Southampton / 2003 Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (Gruppenausstellung) / Twenty White Chairs, The Wapping Project, London / Jerwood Space, London / Design Centre, Leeds.

Publications (selection): 1999 The Independent (The Review, 4-9 Oktober) / 2000 Assembly (Art Review, February) / 2003 Camera Austria (Forum, Nr.82).

INGAR KRAUSS: *1965 in Berlin (D); freelance photographer in Berlin and Oderbruch since 1995.
Exhibitions: 2001 5. Aenne-Biermann-Prize for German Contemporary Photography, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Gera (Group exhibition / catalogue) / 2002 Katzenauge (The Cats Eye), Galerie Bodo Niemann, Berlin (Solo exhibition) / Scholarship holder of the Kultursenat of Berlin in the Moscow House of Photography / Moscow Photobiennale 2002, Moscow House of Photography (Group exhibition / catalogue) / 10th John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London (Group exhibition / catalogue) / Dem Engel auf der Spur Übergangsphänomene in Fotografie und Film, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (Group exhibition / catalogue) / 2003 Von den Kindern weiß man nichts (One knows Nothing About the Children), Kunsthalle Erfurt (Solo exhibition / catalogue) / The Cats Eye, Marvelli Gallery, New York City (Solo exhibition) / Moti Mentali Mirroring Victorian and Contemporary Photography, Marvelli Gallery, New York City (Group exhibition).

MARCELO PEROCCO: *1957 in Minas Gerais (BRA); Studies of economics, theatre and dance at the University of Sao Paulo; Engagements as dancer and actor in theatre -productions in Brasil (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro) and in Europe; 1997 beginning of an autodidactic preoccupation with photography; lives in Vienna.

Exhibitions/Projects: 2000 Volti senza Maschera, Mestre, Venezia and Vienna / 2001 wie man älter wird, Participation in the exhibition Bilder von Wienern (Pictures of Viennese People) in the Museum auf Abruf, Wien / 2002 Wohnungen in Wien, (Flats in Vienna) in the context of the installations series Lasst die Puppen Tanzen, Vienna / Bilder von Wienern (Pictures of Viennese People), Galerie Krakow, Poland / 2003 Develpoment of the project Doubleseries / since 2001 working on the series Teenagers.

STEVEN TYNAN: 1976-79 Cheshire School of Art; 1979 – 82 Bournemouth College of Art; 1982 – 83 Pratt Institute New York / International Center of Photography New York; 1987 – 89 Royal College of Art.

Solo exhibitions (selection): 2001 University of California Berkeley USA / 2002 Spacex Gallery Exeter / Metronom Gallery Barcelona Spain / Luovan Valokuvauksen Kerkus, Jyvaskyla Finland / Hippolyte Gallery Helsinki Finland / Northern Photographic Center Oulu Finland / 2003 Kulturhuset Stockholm Sweden.

Group exhibitions (selection): 1999 Falmouth College of Arts / 2002 Dick Institute Kilmarnock Scotland / 2004 Trace Gallery Weymouth / Art in General New York.

Prizes (selection): 2001 Falmouth College of Arts Research Bursary /

2002 Arts Council Major Arts Award / British Council Travel Bursary / South West Arts Bursary / Falmouth College of Arts Research Bursary / 2003 British Council Travel Bursary / Falmouth College of Arts Research Bursary.

EVGENI MOKHOREV: *1967 in Leningrad (RU); employed as a pofessional photographer in a state-owned business since 1986; 1987 admittance to the famous photo-club Spiegel (Mirror) in Leningrad; since 1992 member of the Association of Photographers of Russia; lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Solo exhibitions (selection): 2001 Goethe- Institute, St. Petersburg / 2002 Spaziergänge durch die Stadt (Walks Through the City), Bookstore England, St. Petersburg / Gleitendes Licht, Main Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow / Verworrenes Alter, Bridge Bagration, Fotobiennale Moscow / 2003 Jugendliche aus Petersburg (Youngsters from Petersburg), Photo Museum Metenkov-House, Katharinenburg.

Group exhibitions (selection): 2001 Art-Photography / Centre of Photography Union of Journalists, Moscow (Award winner) / Stadt der Wärme (City of Warmth), Exhibition on the Walls, Surgut, Russia / 2003 Zeitgenössisches Petersburg durch die Augen des Fotografen (Contemporary Petersburg Through the Eyes of the Photographer), Russian Museum, St. Petersburg / Straßen-Gesichter, Jahre-Häuser, Rumjanzev-Palle, St. Petersburg.

Numerous publications and awards.

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