Friendship, freedom and fragility: the photographer who returns to her teenage years

Beauty and pain coexisted for Tajette O'Halloran when she came of age in northern NSW. As an adult she is recreating scenes from her adolescence I grew up in the northern rivers of New South Wales in the 1990s. It was a place of stark contrasts: utopian dreams, alternative culture and abject social disadvantage. Since that time I have spent many years reflecting on my coming of age in such an unusual place and how it has shaped my adult life. In 2014 I started taking pictures in an effort to rec...