In a world marked by crises of identity, relationships mediated by screens, and the difficulty of finding authentic role models, growing up today is a complex challenge.
Ri-scatti explored this reality by involving fifteen young people supported by the P.I.P.S.M. programme of ASL Roma 1, a service working in the field of prevention and early therapeutic intervention for young people aged between 14 and 25 at psychopathological risk.
Over the course of five months, eight girls and seven boys took part in a workshop led by volunteer professional photographers from Ri-scatti, each working with a camera. The aim was simple only in appearance: “to tell adults what it means to be an adolescent today.” Intense inner worlds emerged, criss-crossed by fears and fragility, but also by a strong determination to seek one’s place in an uncertain present.
Accustomed to fast, smartphone-based photography, the young people encountered a slower tempo of the gaze: images to be frozen, without the urgency to share them. Photography became a space for introspection and expression within a collective process made up of shared moments and silences, unexpected openings, absences and returns, giving shape to difficult emotional states and small personal achievements. The exhibition conveys these journeys through intense and often allegorical images, where melancholy and curiosity coexist, suspended between the desire to dream and the effort of defining oneself within a complex social context.