‘It’s the quagmire of teenage existence - vulnerability with confidence’: Denise Marcotte’s best phone picture

Girls Girls Girls, 2018, shot on iPhone 7 Plus. Photograph: Denise Marcotte

In the late 80s and early 90s, Denise Marcotte had a project photographing teens in their bedrooms. Decades later, with a teenage son of her own, the Massachusetts-based photographer decided to revisit the subject. Back then she used a Fujica 6x9 film camera with a tripod; this time she used an iPhone.

“There is nothing that makes a teenager feel more comfortable than an iPhone,” Marcotte says. “So using one brings me a sense of freedom on many levels: technically, artistically and in my connection to my young subjects.”