Marcel Winatschek

Mariam Sitchinava’s Girls at the Edge of Something

Mariam Sitchinava photographs teenagers with the quiet intensity of someone who hasn’t forgotten what it felt like—that suspended, slightly menacing state between childhood and whatever comes next. Her Ethereal Teenager series gives you girls who look both ancient and barely formed, shot in light that feels borrowed from somewhere else entirely. There’s a specific loneliness in the work that I find hard to look away from.