Alex Kreher: Sofie Knijff - Translations

Belgian-born photographer Sofie Knijff has spent the last three years traveling the world making portraits of children and asking them one question: what do you want to be when you grow up?

She returned with beautiful portraits of rural children around the world.

With no limits, these children started to dream big and dress up as their dream profession. Knijff photographed each child in front of a similar, monotone backdrop which allows the children to separate themselves from their current world and leave the possibility open that this might actually become true.

Paired with photos of empty places that these children grow up in, on gets the inside / outside view and it is hard not to wonder what will become of childhood dreams and expectations.

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