Game Boys

Clara Jeffery

Photo Essay by Shauna Frischkorn

Eyes cast upward in ecstatic contemplation—500 or 600 years ago these expressions might have been found in a work by Raphael or Guido Reni. But Shauna Frischkorn, an associate professor of art at Pennsylvania's
 Millersville University, has captured the agony and the ecstasy of our own age in a wide-ranging series of portraits: no monks or saints, just ordinary teenage boys playing Halo. She says that "while they seem passive, they're actually performing fast-paced maneuvers and executing split-second decisions, making these portraits of intense concentration."

View the photo essay as it originally appeared in the magazine by clicking on the thumbnail below, or, to see additional portraits, click on the photos to the right.