256 pages Edited by Violaine Aurias, Manon Lenoir, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Julie Dayer and Hannah Pröbsting Foreword by Salomé Saqué Designed by Agnès Dahan Studio, Agnès Dahan and Raphaëlle Picquet 25.3 x 18 cm Language: French Paperback Publisher: Éditions Textuel, Photo Elysée 2025
A bold and vital panorama of photographers from Generation Z, born between the mid-1990s and 2010, capturing the urgency of self-representation in a world in flux.
Across sixty artists from every corner of the globe: Shanghai, Cape Town, Amsterdam, Paris, Lausanne, London, New York, Delhi, and beyond, this book reveals a generation that turns the lens inward to tell its own story. Their works move against the fleeting tide of social-media imagery, offering instead deliberate, critical, and deeply personal visions that dismantle visual norms and invent new iconographies.
The images oscillate between the intimate and the political, where questions of body, gender, identity, and belonging intertwine. Each photograph becomes a declaration of vulnerability, of resistance, of joy, of rage.
As journalist Salomé Saqué writes in her preface: ”Youth does not know how to pretend. It doubts out loud. It raises its fist, draws, protests, clings, embraces, destroys, creates, bursts with joy or bends under melancholy. It exists without apology.”
