It’s this time of transition for most of us. We’re right at the end of childhood, on the cusp of being a teenager. It’s not easy, but one artist decided to zero in on this time in the lives of more than 250 13-year-olds, because she thinks it’s actually a really beautiful moment in their lives.
Photographer Betsy Schneider’s resulting project, "To Be Thirteen," is showing now at the Phoenix Art Museum. In it, she explores, through portraits and videos, what it means to be at this transitional point in life.
When The Show spoke with Schneider more about it, she said it started with documenting her own daughter at this tenuous age.
