It is not easy for young people today. Well, to be honest, they never did. Once their future is threatened by war, secondly by poverty, thirdly by an economic crisis... The battle for the future just moves to other battlefields. Today, in most western and developed countries, these are employment agencies, while in many they are still fields and real battlefields. But if we return to the west. The result of the crisis is the emergence of 'Mama hotels', as evidenced by Damon Casarez's documentary photographs.
Damon Casarez from Los Angeles is himself a modern slave, a slave to the insatiable capitalism, which subjugates in a subtle and latent way young people, which does educate. Especially in America, where they are student loans American boys grave, instead of light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, light is possible, but from the train, not the end of the tunnel. Because Casarez, a photographer by profession, after graduating from college failed on the battlefield, where instead of weapons sparkle sequins, he had to repent, humiliated and impoverished to return home, with a debt that will hang over him like the sword of Damocles for a long time.
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Even here, the situation is nothing more pink, so it is not surprising that since 2011 85% percent of young people under the age of 30 he lives with his parents. And just like that, otherwise from sixteen American states, is in his photography project Boomerang kids incorporated by Casarez. Young people who were forced to stay at home or to return there because, despite their education, turbo capitalism did not accept them among themselves. His idea was picked up by a magazine NYT Magazine, when he was in the same situation as his portraits. He didn't present it through classic portraits, but through it documentary photography with which he was able to capture not only the essence of the specimen but essence of generation, which has been degraded by systemic greed to the point that it must at most fertile years once again through time childhood and infantilism, although it has long since become mature for an independent life.
