Adolescent Girls

10 images Created 9 Dec 2020

These are black and white portraits of girls at the tail end of innocence. In Ghana, girls in public schools are made to cut their hair low. This is a policy designed to delay their blossoming into womanhood- to keep them looking not very different from the boys; to delay how soon they become pregnant. For most adolescent girls, pregnancy means the end of education.
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