Vitor Queiroz, Young Cairo (Doco/Photojournalism (2019))

Young Cairo is a work in progress documentary project, set in Sydney's Inner West, about the daily life of “Cairo”, a 21-year-old south Sudanese aspiring hip-hop artist with no role models to guide him in his search for a place in society. Immersed in the hustling of daily life, Cairo struggles to be a son, a brother, an uncle, an adult and a professional musician. It is a world where family, media and social role models don’t understand each other and where everything happens at a fast pace. A social background that acts as a magnifying glass, revealing the conflicts that teenagers and young adults face nowadays, in different shades of skin.

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