Budapest-based photographer Bianka Schumann’s series ‘Arkhai’ is an intimate look at the tender friendship between two adolescents.
Schumann used her younger brother and his best friends as subjects, capturing their fragile and vulnerable world as they transit from children to adults.
Described by the photographer as a “no-man’s land”, adolescence is a time where “big questions of the life are being dissected” as the youngsters find themselves caught between the shifting worlds of childhood and adulthood.
The dreamy photographs of the pair playing in the woods, huddling together under blankets, and making snow angels are a nostalgic paean to youth, and form a secret visual diary as seen through Schumann’s eyes.
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[via My Modern Met and Republic X, images via Bianka Schumann]