On The Cusp, Longlist - Personal Project

Microcosm

Elizabeth Weinberg

I am part of the last generation in human history to have a childhood without the internet. My son, in contrast, is part of the first ever tech-native generation. We have one of the starkest childhood lifestyle divides that has ever existed. Any song, accessible with the push of a button; video chatting that was once the stuff of science fiction; media of all kinds just a voice command away; social media and self-branding is ubiquitous; boredom is blasphemy. This film transports us back to the summer of 1993, a 30 year time slip into a life when what we knew was limited to what we saw in reality, or movies, or television. Kids roamed the neighborhood and created fun out of the slow summer crawl of time, in some ways freer then than now.

Elizabeth Weinberg is a photographer and director based in Los Angeles, specializing in storytelling that fuses a loose approach with measured precision for the moment. Her work is informed by her photojournalism education and is documentary at its core. She seamlessly spans the worlds of celebrity portraiture, advertising, travel, and reportage with ease, shooting in a relaxed, no-frills manner that brings out the shared humanity in all of her subjects. Elizabeth was selected as an Art Directors Club Young Gun and one of PDN's 30 Photographers to Watch, and has received awards and recognition from American Photography, Communication Arts, and the Berlin Commercial Festival. Her work has been exhibited at the Lentos Art Museum and Brooklyn Museum, and she has helmed the visuals for groundbreaking campaigns for Airbnb, Instagram, Google, and Amazon.