Student soldiers and teen matadors: kids prepare for adulthood – in pictures

Anatoly, Ukraine, 2017

‘Indeed, for Chelbin, the incongruity of youth dressed up in the clothes of adulthood – young boys in formal military attire, pubescent teens dolled up in sharkskin suits and chintzy dresses on their way to prom – not only reveals the contrast between the two, but also, touchingly, lays bare the vulnerability of her subjects’