BOYHOOD
BOYHOOD
Dutch-Ghanian photographer, Casper Kofi, goes to Aruba and the Netherlands to capture the beauty in boyhood and paradise.
Text and Photography by CASPER KOFI
Issue 001
“From a young age, I naturally associated certain things with masculinity and saw adult men as being the source of a lot of hardships that my mother or my sisters or my friends went through."
"As a boy, it was difficult for me to relate to masculinity in a positive manner."
“I felt some guilt or had a fear that me being a boy and eventually a man would alienate me from the people that loved me and the people that I loved who happened to be women. "
“I felt some guilt or had a fear that me being a boy and eventually a man would alienate me from the people that loved me and the people that I loved who happened to be women. "
"But on the other side, I didn’t feel feminine, like the women I loved. I felt different from them and I express myself differently and I move differently and I look different."
