‘Still Life of Teenagers’ is a series that delves into the ways young people engage with the world through photographs of their homes. Centered a round the teenage bedroom, the series offers a personal insight into contemporary Danish youth life.
The snapshots capture aspects ofeveryday life that we often take for granted or perhaps even overlook. Interiors, technology and everyday clutter fill the rooms with information and stories about the lives that unfold within and around them.
The project was published in book form by Disko Bay in 2023.
“Barbara Marstrand’s photo book offers a keenly observant sociological study of the Danish youth culture of today. What does it look like in the spaces of Danish teens, what do they like to surround themselves with, how do they aestheticise their everyday lives, what preoccupies them? Meanwhile, these details also function as traces of the life lived with and among the objects. We go hunting for signs in the pictures; we sense, feel and construct stories about the rooms’ inhabitants.” – from the book’s opening essay by Mette Sandbye .