Exhibition: June 4th - July 10th 2009Opening Reception: June 4th 2009 6pm- 9pm
Featuring: Nikki Levine and Jessica Katzki
Pretty/Tough: The Life of a Teenage Girl project is a collection of portraits that illuminates the complexity of the teenage experience. This project is conceived by Nikki Levine (photography instructor at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay) in collaboration with her student Jessica Katzki.
The goal of this project is to explore and reveal the inner emotional experience of being a teenage girl today and to translate those feeling into a visual medium. This is achieved by enabling each subject to feel comfortable within herself and by honoring exactly who she is right now.
Nikki Levine and Jessica Katzki selected 12 students from JCHS who they felt embodies the Spirit of the teenage girl- either in their personality or unique physical attributed. Everyone of them was required to fill out a questionnaire that gave them an opportunity to think about themselves both subjectively and objectively. The girls were asked what they like about themselves, their comfort level about how they look, if they felt the fit in, and where they want to be photographed.
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