Monster and Primark may not scream high fashion, but photographer Winter Vandenbrink captures them with the same intensity as he does Louis Vuitton or Bottega Veneta. Growing up an only child in the Netherlands, his own shopping-mall-loitering teenage years have developed into an adulthood spent documenting the turbulence of urban youth. Now residing himself in the metropolis of Paris, Vandenbrink’s work chronicles inner-city anxieties against steely-grey backdrops, anchoring subcultural significance in backpacks, tattoos and tracksuits. Such concrete symbols exhibit a gritty masculinity, but the bravado and boisterousness are always tempered by the fragility and softness of youth.
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