venus or polaris

The series focuses on a group of teenagers, mainly boys between the ages of 16 to 19, living in Emmen and Emmenbrücke, a suburb of Lucerne in Switzerland. The work explores the state of belonging to a group, identifying with one another due to shared interests or similar outlooks on life. 

The title originated from a simple question, asked by one of the boys, about the name of the first star one could see at dusk. Simultaneously it entails the question about their current state of mind. Interpreted from my position as the photographer, having spent some time with them, I read it as not quite yet knowing what to do with their lives, while at the same time finding what they like and how they want the world to see them.