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DOCUMENTING GEN Z
Generation Z is an age that personifies a bland, homogeneous, aesthetic perfection; everyone dressed in the same streetwear, mimicking high-street trends and taking the same pictures in order to painstakingly curate their online identities. In the last decade, a reduced emphasis on the old subcultural signifiers of identity; the mods, rockers, punks, goths, skaters and ravers, has left 'a gap in the market', so to speak, for individuality.
Youth culture seems more collective, more united: sharing the same quality of pioneering independence that by design, shapes our social identities. However these social constructs do still exist, and to young people who are progressing into the complexities of adult life, are important and can offer comfort and security. Subcultures offer an identity outside social institutions such as family, work, home and school.