Cool South African school kids photographed by Anastasia Korosteleva

Date
16 February 2015

This post comes by way of submission from young Russian photographer Anastasia Korosteleva. You may have seen her Girls series over on Dazed in which she burnt out the faces of the subjects of her dream-like photographs. This series entitled Classmates takes Anastasia to sunny East London in South Africa where she turns her lens to school kids. Once you get past how fantastic their uniforms are, and that feeling of nostalgic schoolyard bliss has passed, notice just how fantastic Anastasia is at contrasting the primary colour uniforms against the stark, school-y backgrounds. Also worth noting is how clever she is to not make the project cutesy in the slightest, but just a study of a group of innocent, cheeky mini adults.

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Anastasia Korosteleva: Classmates

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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