Ewen Spencer - Teenagers

Venue details

Third Floor Gallery
102 Bute Street
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff CF10 5AD
Wales, United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 2921 159 151
www.thirdfloorgallery.com

Event details

In this day and age, being a teenager in Britain can be difficult. Tabloid newspapers often portray young people as being a generation of "violent, illiterate young men living outside the boundaries of civilised society”. The question remains, to what extent is the media right in depicting a part of the British youth in such a denigrating manner?

The Newcastle-born photographer Ewen Spencer (1971) spent the last fifteen years documenting the British youth in the inner cities of Britain. His sensitive depictions of his protagonists provide a much more in-depth look than the media offers to us, of a generation often misunderstood. The youth he documents prove to be part of a complex culture, raging with emotions and often filled with creativity.

For more information on Ewen Spencer visit his website.

Read about Larry Clark’s depiction of youth in the USA here.