When we were younger, the situations that annoyed us were very different. A lot of my childhood memories involve me being dragged around by my parents to places I would rather not be. In this series I captured ten examples of unpleasant childhood memories, reenacted by portraits of young adults. Each picture depicts the model looking bored, melancholy, or uncomfortable in the situation that they are in. Some of the ideas are personal to me and others are more general situations most of us can relate to. They include shopping in a grocery store, having an unfulfilling birthday party, waiting for your parents for long periods of time, being forced to take a bath when you’d rather be dirty doing something more fun, receiving a bad haircut, getting injured, having to dress up for an event when you don’t see a point in formal things, an unhappy summer at camp, the frustration of learning to ride a bike and being told to eat your vegetables. I chose to make the images more vibrant and colorful than I’m used to because we often remember our earlier years as simpler, more playful and innocent times. My purpose for these photographs is to invoke a sense of not nostalgia, but the opposite. Even though our struggles today are far greater compared to the insignificant ones we worried about then, we are happy we no longer find ourselves in these awkward, uncomfortable and sometimes scarring situations that stick with us. However, that sense of innocent frustration and confusion hasn’t completely left us, we just became more accustomed to it as our everyday issues matured. These innocent examples of inconveniences were our first exposure to the real world of awkwardness and growing up ahead of us.