This series is a collection of children’s portraits. Speers has stripped away the stereotypical perception of childhood being the happiest period of anyone’s lives.
Inspired by her 8-year old daughter’s birthday party, her series closely observes the dynamics between the children and the various levels at which these children role-play. Her photographs embraces reality as it is before children transits from childhood to adolescence; that unabashed notion of anarchy, sense of spontaneity, play and freedom of expression. The resulting visuals are unsettling, with a vague sense of transparency and the humanity neither that of an adult nor of a child.