Karin Geiger: Plush Toys and Poster Boys

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Karin Geiger documents the subcultures of young women - in their homes, their schools, and social milileus. Geiger's respectful relationship with girls from two Vancouver high schools is conveyed in photography in several formats, suggestive of the multiple roles embodied by adolescence. Essayist Kitty Scott explains "leaving childhood and struggling towards adulthood, teenagers reside in a liminal space where they are fully constituted as neither child nor adult. Still living at home, high school girls perform multiple roles; conventionally they are good girls, daughters and students, but they can also be lovers, mothers, collectors, smokers, users, pool players, adoring fans and runaways." By choosing this subject matter, Geiger represents subcultures that are rarely presented in the field of contemporary art photography.

Karin Geiger, Untitled from series Inbetween, 1996.