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These Photos Will Make You Nostalgic For Your Awkward Teenage Years

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These Feel-Good Photos Celebrate Friends & Their Clubbing Outfits

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These Nostalgic Photos Celebrate The Girls Of Cornwall

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These Photos Capture The Bond Between A Mother & Daughter Just 17...

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These Photos Tell The Love Story Of A Past Relationship (NSFW)

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Reflective Photos Of Daughters Who Have Lost Their Mothers

Berlin-based photographer Marina Hoppmann was just 17 years old when she lost her mum, Ria. The two of them had been exceptionally close and the experience

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In Pictures: Young People Living With ADHD

London-based Norwegian photographer Nora Nord was diagnosed with ADHD in 2018, when she was in her early 20s. It was an immensely freeing feeling, she says

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These Photos Celebrate The Sacred Ritual Of Getting Ready To Go Out

It’s amazing how much the little spaces we carve out for ourselves can reveal about our personalities, isn’t it? How we style our bedrooms, the picture

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These Intimate Photos Illuminate The Experience Of Pregnancy For ...

“I was two weeks into my master’s course when I found out I was pregnant,” says 24-year-old photographer Jade Carr-Daley. “At the time,

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I Moved To The Middle Of Nowhere & Became A Mother In Solitude

“It was a wild and beautiful place to be. We lived at the whim of the weather and the wildlife, which was totally romantic and often very brutal. Rat

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Intimate Photos Of Young Chinese Women Living Away From Home

‘Home’ can be a difficult thing to define. Is it where we were born? Where our parents are from? Where we spent the biggest parts of our childhoods? Is

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My Tinder Boys: A Photographer Flips The Gaze On Her Dating App M...

When Chinese photographer Yushi Li moved to the UK in the mid-2010s to study, she signed up for Tinder to meet some new people. Dating had been different f

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From First Loves To First Babies: A Photo Story Of Two Girls Grow...

In the summer of 1999, Magnum photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti was in the middle of a project documenting life on a farm in the rural province of Buenos

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Photos: GIRLS, An Honest Exploration Of Gen Z Femininity (NSFW)

“It all started with Livvy, who I found on Instagram one year ago. She was the first and original subject of this story.” London-based Italian

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Goth, Emo, Indie, Scene: Photographing Myself As Different Teen T...

“For me, photography has always been about talking to and connecting with people in real life. I’ve always been interested in music subcultures and

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Inside The Bedrooms Of Twentysomethings

What does your bedroom mean to you? How much time do you spend there? And how have you made it yours? This subject began swirling around 23-year-old, Londo

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In Pictures: 6 Months With Sheffield’s Sex Workers

Twenty-two-year-old Barnsley-born photographer Lily Miles became interested in the subject of sex work after watching a documentary on Channel 4 called A V

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These Tender Photos Celebrate Women’s Relationships With Th...

“I grew up feeling insecure about my own body, always comparing myself to the girls I saw in magazines, which weren’t very inclusive during my teen

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These Joyful Photos Are An Ode To Black British Culture

Back in June 2020, photographer Nadine Scarlett was busy getting involved in the Black Lives Matter protests that were filling the streets of central Londo

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These Intimate Photos Of Couples In Their Homes Will Give You All...

“For as long as we can remember, we feel like we’ve been taught that the default, ‘normal’ image of a romantic relationship looks a ver

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These Photos Explore The Lives Of Women In & After Cults

When she was just 4 years old, Alba Zari fled the infamous Christian fundamentalist cult the Children of God along with her mother and her grandmother. Hav

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12 Intimate Photographs That Tell An Honest Story Of Motherhood (...

“I think I knew from a young age that I wanted to have children one day,” recalls British photographer Imogen Freeland. It was this innate draw

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These Joyous Photos Are An Ode To The Young Women Of Ukraine

“Ukrainian women are so resilient and so very strong and I see that more than ever now with the war. The power of withstanding such atrocities and st

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Intimate Photos Documenting A Transition (NSFW)

“Taking a photo every day is, for me, a way of showing up for myself. It’s part of a larger process of accountability and self-care,” says 27

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Meet The Girls Given Up For Adoption Under China’s One Child Policy

In 1994 a group of six Belgian families boarded a plane from Brussels to Beijing, all with the same intention: to adopt a baby girl. Aged between 6 months

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These Photographs Take You Inside The Private Lives Of Porn Moms

American photographer Mary Beth Koeth has a little pink notebook filled with plans and inspiration for her work. In it, some years ago, she wrote an idea t

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Magical Photos Exploring The Shared Experiences Of Growing Up As ...

When photographer Nydia Blas talks about the young women she photographs, her words are imbued with ideas of magic and alchemy and power, and there’s a f

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These Candid Photos Tell The True Story Of Young Native Americans

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These Photos Offer An Intimate Look At Being A Young Woman In Chi...

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These Tender Photos Capture Queer Culture In America’s Deep...

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