Produced between 2016 and 2025, Venezuelan Youth is Silvana Trevale’s contribution to her homeland: a testament that distances itself from portrayals of crises to offer a sensitive and profound view of the complexities of Venezuelan identity as seen through the eyes of its youth.

Yet how do you document a place that many dismiss as a ruin even while it teems with life? For Silvana, the eventual answer was to capture children and adolescents who embody incredible light even during difficult circumstances, so that she might transform the trauma of having left her country into a tribute to the strength of those who still remain. In this way, she’s created a book that reflects the Venezuela that truly exists: “the one I love deeply, a wounded and fearful country, but one that still breathes hope.”