© Robin Bowman

During a long period of 5 years, photojournalist Robin Bowman - a 2005 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fellow- traveled across The United States of America compiling an extraordinary collection of portraits of adolescents that are complemented with the teenager's own voices and statements.Not only the portraits -all in black and white- are exquisite but what makes this work special is that it provides a pictorial census of the circumstances describing the generation that will define the future of the USA.

The result of this work is a book entitled "It's Complicated: The American Teenager", containing a very large amount -263- of portraits and statements. The total photographic project resulted in 419 portraits, so only a selection of those appear in the book.

At her website you can see a slide show of few of the images: it displays a bit slowly [good if you have the time to enjoy each of them]. A better way to see the images (more images although smaller) is at the website for the Moving Walls program organized by the Open Society Institute. If you look at the photo gallery you will see the images with the adolescent's statements. The statements are a fundamental component to fully appreciate the project.

Also, I like to point to a beautiful article about Bowman's work here.[thanks to Bill Hunt from Hasted Hunt gallery for the tip] [from the picture above] - Lawrence, Kansas, July 2, 2004. Patrick Roberts, age 19.

When my parents got divorced I was about 10 years old and the reason they got divorced was because my mom was, or decided, or found out, she was a lesbian. I'd say that's one of the most influential sort of moments that affected me; it just changed the way that I looked at things, and I think that it caused me to sort of try to grow up faster or to look at things from a perspective that a lot of my peers and classmates weren't looking at that point [...] I think my biggest fear is sex. It scares me.

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I am now in the process of moving this blog from Wordpress.com to a hosted service that uses wordpress software. The names are similar but it is a different set-up as you may well know.Nothing will change from your end, the domain website remains the same [exposurecompensation.com], and the permalinks are identical, so anything that was pointing to the blog is -should be- working the same (if you notice a problem, please let me know). All the content has been exported/imported, but I still need to move links from the Blogroll.

At this moment I am dealing with multiple activities related with the set-up, as well as learning/finding plug-ins, widgets, and themes that will define the blog moving forward. This theme is provisional, as there are things I don't like and will have to search for something else in the future. It does not help that I am not that well versed in CSS or PHP, so the process to change designs is a bit slow.

I hope the process does not cause too much hassle for you. If I may, I like to ask for some feedback and suggestions about the design. If have knowledge of some plug-ins or themes that would like to suggest, I will be glad to hear from you either with a comment or by e-mail.Here are few questions if you like to provide some feedback:

• Do your prefer themes that are more busy visually (more colors, three columns) or cleaner (less colors, mostly white and two columns)?
• If there is a wordpress theme you particularly like and want to suggest?

I would like to find plugins of widgets that offer the following capabilities. Please if you are aware of any I appreciate if you point them to me:

• Plug-in or Widget to feature selected posts from the archive
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Thanks very much for your patience with these changes .... more soon.

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