Photographing children in adolescence is difficult, it’s a fact. You always go out of your way to stir them up and appease them. So, this time I was not only a photographer, but also an animator, a clown, a child psychologist, but nothing was really helping. This young man ‘was in character’ and was not going to get out of it, he steadfastly held on. After 30 minutes of futile efforts, Mohammed (to whom the mountain did not come) simply changed the concept: the parents mercilessly trolled their son, had fun to a full extent, and their son was the center of the composition - with the calmness of Buddha, he balanced the exuberant joy of the parents (although, once we still succeeded in him laughing!).
The most astonishing thing is that after the shooting, the boy, in the same even voice, devoid of emotional overtones, without looking at anyone, said: “I didn’t even imagine that I would say this, but it was cool” ... Curtains!
