Marla don’t even look in the camera. She buries her head deep in the bedding. The 17-Year-old had to cancel her year abroad in new Zealand, as Corona spread in the world. When she was back in Germany, she hung between two worlds, was not a member of any class, knew what to do with herself.
A couple of months, you hit the dead, then the new school year began, then the second Lockdown came. It was even more difficult, she says. “Everything feels so bleak.” Now, the girl spends a lot of time in bed, sleeps a lot, depends on the mobile phone.
The quotes and the picture of Marla come from the project “youth in Lockdown” the Hamburg-based photographer Rebecca Hoppé. From January to March, she portrays young people, many of them are friends of her son Dillon, 17. It all started with him. “I looked at him, and for him this life lacked light. It was dimmed down,” says Hoppé.
You’ve seen what the Lockdown was doing with her son. The photographer wondered how other young people have to actually be stuck in a life phase in which they fledged, and “through life dancing”. To her, it was important to show the problems of young people, to give them a voice. Otherwise you will see no one.
You met Greta, upset that a teacher or parents tried in the Situation of young people’s place. She met Ebba, 13, says: “When I watch a movie tonight, and since people go to the supermarket, I think, is why the have a mask?” She met Nikan, the dreams of his 18. To celebrate the birthday of large: “there’s something I want to rent and fat celebrate. With all the friends, so we are all together again. This Get-Together. People and contact. This is such a beautiful feeling.” Or Bengt, 17, has set up on the roof floor is a small fitness Studio “Is a bit cold up there, but you have to make the most of this time,” he says.
Hoppé told how strong some of the young people were, in spite of everything. It tells of a young boy, the handle of a broom, a barbell has to be built and to paint of a girl who has begun again. “I admire those who have found a way to deal with the crisis.”
To create the crisis do all young people, with whom you have spoken, says Hoppé. “You are the social contacts are missing, the spontaneous encounters. Some stare for hours of the day on the screen.” Behind every closed door is a man with Worries and expectations for the rest of your life sitting, but will not be seen.
