Kids Just Wanna Fly (2025)

Kids Just Wanna Fly is a photobook about youthful ambition.

Kids Just Wanna Fly is an invitation to take a leap into the unknown.

Kids Just Wanna Fly is a collaboration between Ben Porter and 8 authors.

Kids Just Wanna Fly will take off on Friday 7th November 2025.

Captured on disposable cameras, polaroids, cheap consumer digital cameras, and early iPhones, KJWF is set in a world of teenage possibility before modern camera technology had matured.

Like most of my work, it addresses themes of culture, identity, and environment, and is rooted in my experience of growing up in a post industrial city in the north of England.

The bulk of the photos were captured between 2003 and 2013.