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When we talk about Ba ling hou (born after the 1980s) in China, we are actually talking about the first generation born under the one childpolicy and raised during the reform and opening up led by Deng Xiaoping after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).This generation grew up together with the Internet and social media, melting into a consumer society that is totally in rupture with the preceding generations. Luo Yang, a photographer born in 1984, is also one of them.In 2007, at the age of 23, Luo started the series Girls, which brought her international recognition. For ten years, Luo Yang followed more than a hundred of women from her generation, recording changes to their bodies and their lives, observing and capturing their delicate transition to adulthood. It's as if the photographer was capturing their (her) emotions as a young woman by holding a mirror up to her own growth and evolution alongside those of her models.Now, Luo Yang is in her late 30s. In the new series Youth that
