"'Angles
of Lonely' is my ongoing photography series that I’ve taken over the past year
and a half in various towns throughout my home state of Georgia. I’ve grown up
being told that I need to be and act a certain way with everyone around me, and I
think that has to do with living in close-minded towns of the South. My friends
and I have been proving ourselves to as many people as we can, that we can
be whoever we want to be. We aren’t bound by our gender or race or sexual
orientation or religion. We have our own freedom, and with living in these
small towns, we are often alone in our thoughts and ideas on life. So this
series has been hoping to capture some of these moments of self-discovery." -Kayley Biseda, 18, Georgia
This photo was taken last July in Savannah, Georgia in my
friend Brittany and I’s dorm room we were staying in. This is Brittany, she was
16 years old and was just beginning to transform herself into a completely
different person than she had been previously. We stayed a week in Savannah
that summer; after we returned to our hometown, neither of us were the same
person. I like to think of this portrait as the end of an era for Brittany. She
was on the edge of rebelling against everything she’d ever been taught and
desperately wanted to be her own person.
This picture was taken the same night. Brittany was gazing
into the mirror and it looks as if she just knew that life was going to be different
from there on out.
This is a picture of my younger brother. We live out in the
middle of nowhere, surrounded by fields and forests. The sky was beautiful that
evening, and we were out listening to music and dancing around. He is one of
those people who are stuck in their ways, but you can tell he wants his life to
change.
Lastly, this is me, laying down in a driveway in my favorite
shoes. I was daydreaming on this spring day, imagining different scenarios for
my life. I have learned so much about myself in the past two years, and I’m
learning to not allow people to tell me who I am supposed to be.