Find Your Place
Find Your Place is a series of conversations and photographs with artists in their homes, captured online. It examines the current intersection of our physical and digital space, sharing perspectives across different cities. Each discussion explores the theme of identity, creativity, and how we find our place and sense of self.
Published as an editorial series on Adolescent Content, the series features musicians, artists and creatives photographed over Zoom during lockdown discussing their journey, identity and coming of age.
Featured Artists:
Nilüfer Yanya
IDER
Lowertown
Sophie Hur
Kylo Freeman
Nilüfer Yanya
For me, personal identity is a journey. I feel like I’ll have a different perspective on who I am in ten, twenty years’ time. You tend to gloss over things you don’t want to include in the way you see yourself but whatever you try to gloss over now, you’re going to have to come to terms with later. Sometimes you feel some sort of fear or shame or disconnect from things you feel like you shouldn’t be connected to. Try to push past that.
The more love you can give yourself now, the better. Just try to enjoy being all these different things as much as you can, because there’s so much.
IDER
I wish there wasn’t so much worry, shame, or regret. We carry that a lot. It’s so much easier said than done, to say don’t worry, but I wish there was more of that being said. The main thing really is to not worry about fucking up, because fucking up is good in the end. You learn from it.
Lowertown
We wrote the first EP when we were sixteen and seventeen, and this one we wrote when we were seventeen and eighteen. That may not seem like a big difference, but you go through a lot. Once you turn eighteen, you have more responsibilities, and you’re thinking more about your future and the state of the world. Half of that EP was written after coronavirus hit. A lot was going on and it was affecting my close relationships.
Kylo Freeman
"...who am I? How do I want to present to the world and how do I present in private? How do I want the world to see me?” We all go through that.
Seek community wherever you can find it.
Sophie Hur
At the end of the day, I love who I am and I love what I get the opportunity to put out in the world. I don’t want to take that for granted.