“Lou is at a loss for any clear example for how to be,” explains the image-maker who has previously worked with the likes of Dazed, Adidas, and i-D. “She absorbs caricatured versions of masculine and feminine, and only until she ventures out of her house toward the darkness does she begin the mine the complexities of self definition.“Lou’s experience aims to mirror the vastness and thrill of the teenage experience, and the particular weight of constructing an authentic idea of ‘self’ within the female gaze.”