Italian photographer Niccolò Rastrelli’s project IRL examines how generation Z presents itself in private bedrooms and on social media. The paired portraits matter because they explore how the first “digital natives” build identity across physical and online spaces, often with the same care given to both.

Rastrelli photographed people aged 14 to their late 20s in Italy, the UK, Morocco and France, then paired bedroom images with phone-screen snapshots selected by the subjects themselves. Most online material came from Instagram, particularly temporary Stories, and included filtered selfies, friends, food and film-style portraits; participants also described maintaining multiple accounts.