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# Project Description Coming of Age: Picturing Girlhood Imogen Levin Summary Final work Imogen Levin is a London-based curator and photographer whose work explores themes of gender and memory. Through her projects, she examines intimacy, nostalgia, and the ways images can connect people through shared experience. Working primarily with photographers whose practices are conceptually driven, Levin’s curatorial approach creates spaces that balance softness and frank candidness within the larger conversation of contemporary photography. Her work stems from a desire to redefine the cultural portrayal of girlhood, which she sees as underexplored in both contemporary art and popular media. She often structures her curatorial projects like chapters in a book, expanding on a narrative approach that encourages dialogue between the work and the viewer. In her photographic practice, Levin focuses on quiet, introspective moments. She photographs girls in familiar spaces, creating portraits that feel both private and open. Working with both digital and analogue photography, often shooting on her Minolta X-700, Levin is drawn to the texture and colour of film, using it to craft images that feel warm and sincere. Many of her portraits are taken in bedrooms or domestic settings, using natural light and subdued tones to maintain a sense of realism and emotional depth. By combining research with visual storytelling, Levin builds environments, both curatorial and photographic, that feel reflective, emotive, and deeply human. Imogen Levin is a London-based curator and photographer whose work explores themes of gender and ... College London College of Communication Course MA Photography Graduation year 2025 Coming of Age: Picturing Girlhood is an exhibition project and book bringing together more than sixty photographs from 1970 to 2025 to reframe girlhood within the Western visual canon. Through intimate portraits and staged narratives, the exhibition explores how contemporary photography reclaims female adolescence as both personal and political terrain, where representation becomes an act of resistance and renewal. The project includes 28 photographers, such as Petra Collins, Judith Joy Ross, Justine Kurland, and Rineke Dijkstra, who celebrate girlhood as not a passive or fleeting stage but as an evolving language of becoming. Final work Coming of Age: Picturing Girlhood Coming of Age: Picturing Girlhood is a project and book that explores what it means to grow up as a girl in contemporary Western society. Spanning the 1970s to the 2020s, the project brings together photographs that shift between carefully staged compositions and intimate, candid moments, revealing the many qualities of adolescence. The project follows the practice of photographers such as Diane Arbus and Sally Mann, whose portraits of youth questioned traditional representations of innocence and identity. Pink Tree in Depth, in Coming of Age: Picturing Girlhood. In Coming of Age: Picturing Girlhood , I have chosen to include an in-depth analysis of Justine Kurland's Pink Tree . This scene is important because it evokes a sense of escapism and freedom. Alyssum, the girl pictured, sits alone on the outskirts of a world, in a liminal space free from any familiar prying eyes. Girlhood, like the cherry blossom, is a season of new beginnings, and Kurland observes Alyssum reflecting on her newfound awareness of self. Coming of Age: Picturing Girlhood Coming of Age: Picturing Girlhood is an exhibition project and book bringing together more than sixty photographs from 1970 to 2025 to reframe girlhood within the Western visual canon. Through intimate portraits and staged narratives, the exhibition explores how contemporary photography reclaims female adolescence as both personal and political terrain, where representation becomes an act of resistance and renewal. The project includes 28 photographers, such as Petra Collins, Judith Joy Ross, Justine Kurland, and Rineke Dijkstra, who celebrate girlhood as not a passive or fleeting stage but as an evolving language of becoming. This video will guide you through every section of the exhibition, including Becoming, Home, Performance, Sisters, Rebellion, and Play. Here, you will see the photographs included in each section. View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Share this project Coming of Age: Picturing Girlhood is an exhibition project and book bringing together more than sixty photographs from 1970 to 2025 to reframe girlhood within the Western visual canon. Through intimate portraits and staged narratives, the exhibition explores how conte... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Aesthetics Gender Identity Femininity Memory Nostalgia
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