America's Girls, On the Edge of a Dream (2018–2024) began with a childhood memory. Growing up in rural Belgium, I spent hours staring at glossy American magazines, idolizing the girls and women on their pages and dreaming of a life far beyond the Northern Belgian countryside. Those images became a mirror through which I, like so many young women, learned to measure beauty, identity, and belonging. Years later, after living in the United States, I returned to travel across 28 states, photographing hundreds of girls aged six to eighteen. The series explores the pivotal years between childhood and adulthood through patience, trust, and collaboration, embracing vulnerability, imperfection, and contradiction. While rooted in America, the work is ultimately about the universal experience of growing up and the powerful images that shape who we become.
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