“Every time I meet them, I don’t know what will happen.”
Emma Szabó’s projects tend to be personal, with her subjects mostly found in her immediate micro-environment. In her earlier, perhaps best-known work, Exit, she portrayed her relationship with her children and the vicissitudes of becoming a mother from a teenager, but she also dealt with the consequences of taboos within the family and the transgenerational legacy – the Radix photo series. Her most recent project, which is still ongoing, is titled They say I’m 18, where she returns to her former school.
Once again, Emma Szabó explores a micro-community: she observes the daily life of Generation Z and Alpha within (and beyond) the walls of the educational institution, while analytically questioning herself ten years ago.