A Beautiful Way to Relive Your Teenage Angst
Photo: © Olivia Bolles
Known for capturing dreamy portraits of teenage love and angst, the 22-year-old photographer Olivia Bee was something of a teenage wunderkind herself, rising from her high-school darkroom to shooting a Converse ad at the age of 15. The book Olivia Bee: Kids in Love, out this month from Aperture, showcases some of her earliest Polaroids and staged snapshots with friends. Featuring an interview with Tavi Gevinson, the collection traces adolescence as a two-part story, from female friendship to first-time experiences, like sex and drugs, while holding onto a certain nostalgia — Bee captures basketball courts and summer watermelon, pink-streaked hair, and Fourth of July sparklers. Click ahead to see her evocative photographs.
Bad Day, 2013
Photo: Olivia Bee/© Olivia Bolles
Paul (Watermelon), 2011
Photo: Olivia Bee
Closer, 2010
Photo: Olivia Bee/© Olivia Bolles
Baller, 2011
Photo: Olivia Bee/© Olivia Bolles
Max Jumped Off a Train, 2012
Photo: Olivia Bee/© Olivia Bolles
Backyard (Eyelids), 2009
Photo: Olivia Bee/© Olivia Bolles
Untitled (T-shirt Weather Heaven), 2013
Photo: Olivia Bee
Untitled (Ponytail), 2010.
Photo: Olivia Bee
Away, 2008
Photo: Olivia Bee/© Olivia Bolles
4th of July, 2009
Photo: Olivia Bee/© Olivia Bolles
Olivia Bee: Kids in Love (Aperture, 2016)
Photo: Olivia Bee
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