This exhibition on the subject of youth is concerned with the life plans, wishes, hopes and viewsof young adults and their position in the familial context, among groups of friends and in society in general. On the one hand they derive their guidelines, support and orientation from these while on the other they experience manipulation, paternalism and the pressure of expectations. Adolescence is determined by the difficult processes of finding meaning and the search for one’s own identity. In addition, it is strongly influenced by the discovery and development of the body and contradictory emotional states such as doubt and insecurity but also by rebellion, lightheartedness and a feeling that ‘anything is possible’. The artists are involved with the emotions and living conditions of young people and the...
White Space Gallery is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition by exciting young Austrian photographer Paul Kranzler. The exhibition will present a new series of portraits of teenagers taken at a school in one of London's most deprived areas. Also on show is a series of photographic portraits of Catholic youth in rural Germany and Austria, previously exhibited in Austria and UK, as well as archival photographs of Hitler Youth and portraits of Austrian teenage soldiers from the 1930s and 40s.
Kranzler's photographs explore the aspirations of people living in tough economic conditions and the cultural tensions they face. His new series of portraits was taken in the classrooms of Stoke Newington comprehensive school in Hackney and are exhibited here for the first time.
These latest photographs represent a continuati...