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Hellen van Meene creates awkward self-conscious moments in young girls lives in order to photograph them.In what appears to be somewhat collusive, the girls display bruises or odd-fitting garments. Perhaps she intends the audience to imagine the difficulty and powerlessness of young girls as they move into adolescence. Perhaps she is recreating her own memory of the experience.There are a number of photographers who explore this particular territory and the work always manages to hit the same slightly sarcastic edge.The viewer is always on the "inside" with the photographer, and the girl, the model, is always disenfranchised in the name of high art and psychological importance. Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene was herself barely out of girlhood when she began to photograph adolescent girls whom she knew, or found, in her home town of Alkmaar in the north of Holland. Invited to photograph in Japan in 2000, she found that while she could not communicate directly with her subjects, her instincts regarding the universality of adolescent experience, and her visual and stylistic approach to it, were translatable. In her square-format, medium-focal-length pictures of unnamed girls, van Meene strives to compose 'photographs of adolescent situations and attitudes, which represent the type of "normality" we don't usually share with others, but keep to ourselves.

van Meene, Hellen --- Japan --- 1990 --- -761.2 --- Nederland --- Van Meene, Hellen --- fotografie --- portretfotografie --- fotografen, afzonderlijk --- Photography, Artistic --- Teenage girls --- Photographie --- Meene, Hellen van, --- Teenage girls - Japan - Pictorial works --- Meene, Hellen van, - 1972 --- -Meene, Hellen van, - 1972- - Interviews --- -Meene, Hellen van, - 1972 --- -van Meene, Hellen