ITALY. June 2021. Fara Gerda d'Aadda (BERGAMO). In June 2021, Anna, Clarissa and Chiara socialize in the town center of Fara Gera D'adda, Bergamo, ITALY. In September 2020, when schools reopened, the 250 students of Anna's high school were allowed to enter 50 by 50. Anna, Clara and Clarissa waited on this bench for their turn.

"Before the pandemic we were all together with the youth of the city near the church. But now everything has changed. We kind of separated and we feel different. We always look for a place to stay between us, to stay more comfortably safe and with people that I can trust."

Her closest friends, Clarissa and Chiara, whom she grew up with, tried to support and listen to each other. For them, solace came in the natural world around the village: the forests, the hills, the space. It was where they found peace, where they could walk without the shadow of COVID-19, of death, hovering.

Still, the pandemic affected their friendship as each young woman went through her own trials and tribulations. The teenagers had changed, whether or not they wanted to.