Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Conceptual photography »

Suspended Childhoods is a visual investigation into the moment when a child’s body begins to negotiate limits. Rather than approaching childhood through innocence or nostalgia, the project focuses on suspension, the brief interval between movement and restraint, play and regulation.

The images observe bodies in states of imbalance: jumping, pausing, hesitating, dissolving. Faces are often absent or fragmented, shifting attention away from identity and toward gesture, posture, and the body’s relation to space.

Set primarily within domestic environments, the work traces how limits emerge through proximity, repetition, and everyday interaction. Children appear both learning and mediating these boundaries.

Objects, fabrics, and empty spaces remain as quiet presences within the frame. The project holds childhood as a condition shaped through physical negotiation and suspended agency.