I came across this photo expose, The American Teen, which I found tremendously enthralling and wanted to share it with you. In the 22 photos photojournalist Robin Bowman, manages to not only capture the diversity of the American teen, but also the complexity of the generation. From drugs to god, pregnancy to chastity pledges, rural to city, the streets to the police academy, debutants to punks, drag queens to preachers…the list goes on and on.
While these teens' images are strikingly different, they all have one thing in common and that is that they all face the same drudgery that is coming of age. Every teen has faced the struggle for independence; acceptance and all have searched for guidance in their own way. There is nothing typical about the life of an American teen, and there is nothing easy about growing up today, but each of these teens' shows hope and strength as they battle through adolescence into adulthood.
