At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women Special Editions The softness of the eraser

The softness of the eraser

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Mattia Vacca is an italian Photojournalist and a Documentary Photographer and he was granted exceptional access to the heart of a community which is notoriously closed

Selected interviews

Shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award 2023

At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women Special Editions The softness of the eraserFirst published by Aperture in 1988, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women is a groundbreaking classic by one of photographys most renowned artists. Aperture is reoriginating it in a masterful facsimile edition that retains the spirit of the original. At Twelve is Sally Manns collective portrait of twelve year old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a