LIMEN is a Latin word that means threshold, something that
marks a passage between two different spaces. It also describe
the beginning of a new state, entering something that is still
unknown.
Boys and girls aged between 11 and 14 years old experience the
metamorphosis from childhood to adolescence, developing with
puberty a new physical appearance - which may look both
promising and unsettling, and building their own personal
vision of the world.
In this phase the naivety of the tender age is gradually
abandoned, the bond with parents is more and more loose and
a process of elaboration takes place, leading them to a new
identity and anticipating their future life as young adults.
These pictures aim to capture this instant of revelation, the faint
awareness of independence and the discovery of a private
internal space.
Francesca Cesari is a freelance photographer based in Bologna, Italy.
With an academic background in Modern Art, she started as a self-taught photographer and then perfected her skills with a Diploma in Professional Photographic Practice at the London College of Communication.
Her artistic research focuses on people, often portrayed in interiors with natural light. The projects she leads concentrate on family, motherhood, adolescence and human relationships.
