At Photo Elysée, young photographers challenge assumptions and present a generation through lived experience rather than stereotype.
A Generation Defined by Complexity
Gen Z is often reduced to shorthand narratives, but the realities of the generation resist easy definition. Coming of age amid digital saturation, climate anxiety, and constant political tension, young people today are shaped by overlapping pressures and contradictions. Rather than detachment, the exhibition reveals a cohort marked by awareness, agency, and a desire to articulate identity on its own terms.
Inside the Exhibition at Photo Elysée
Now on view in Lausanne, Switzerland, Gen Z Shaping a New Gaze brings together the work of sixty six international artists. Through a wide range of photographic approaches, the exhibition explores what it means to grow up in a world in flux. The works move fluidly between documentary, conceptual, and deeply personal modes, emphasizing intimacy over spectacle.
New Ways of Seeing and Belonging
Across the exhibition, recurring themes emerge around body, gender, chosen family, and the navigation of layered identities. The artists challenge inherited social norms while proposing new frameworks for connection and self understanding. By centering young voices, the show offers a portrait of a generation actively questioning the world around them while working to define their place within it. Gen Z Shaping a New Gaze is on view at Photo Elysée through February one.
