Nice

Over the past five years, Mark Peckmezian has taken more than 500 portraits of young people he met on the street. This book is edited by Jop van Bennekom who selected and edited 117 of the most beautiful photographs.

“You look nice. How exhilarating and terrifying to be looked at, to be seen – to realize you’ve been an image this whole time. All that patient primping, that painstaking preparation, suddenly confronted with its own potential: This is me! you say, aspirationally tucking a stray strand of hair behind your ear, I’m trying to look like me! You turn to face the audience, and in that state of perpetual becoming, you wonder: Will my outside ever meet my inside? Will I see it when it does?”