Too soon

Photographer

Category

Editorial Photography - Photojournalism

Company

João Coelho

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2024

Country / Region:

Portugal

They are still children, but in fact they all have to be adults and play the role of mothers and fathers, taking care of their younger siblings so that their parents can work from sunup to sundown. From a very early age they had to give up the moments when they could freely play and have fun without having a sense of time passing. They don't show resentment or any kind of revolt because it's always been this way, their fathers and mothers went through this too. But their looks, vague and gloomy, denounce that they have become adults too soon