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Lori Galarreta and A Martínez | Take Two | June 16, 2017
Being a teenager these days is hard enough. But add in having to flee a war-torn country while adjusting to a new place and culture and, well, that makes things even more complex.
It's an experience that's familiar to 18-year-old Dalya Zeno.
Five years ago, Dalya and her mother fled Syria and joined Dalya's brother Mustafa, who was already here in Los Angeles. Their story is surprising — not what may come to mind when you hear about the plight of Syrian refugees or migrants.
The new documentary, "Dalya's Other Country," follows the mother-daughter struggle to assimilate into an increasingly polarized country while trying to hang onto their roots.
Director Julia Meltzer set out to film in 2013 with a very specific idea in mind:
"When I started this film, I was looking for someone coming from Aleppo to Los Angeles, and I found Dalya, and I thought that it would be a good story to look at her process of adjusting to high school."
At the age of 13, Dalya came to the U.S. to start her new life. While acclimating to the new culture and environment, the family was approached to have their lives filmed and documented, something Dalya "didn't take so seriously" at first.
The documentary was segmented into three different sections of Dalya's life, checking in almost every year during her high school career. It starts in 2013, when we see a young 15-year-old Dalya juggling identities. Just as she's starting to mold her identity, a visit from her father throws her off balance, and in a particularly revealing scene, she admits she doesn't like it in the U.S.
Flash forward to present day when, upon hearing that clip, 18 year-old Dalya laughs:
"It's funny how I came here and I didn't like it and I wanted to go back to my old life. But I never honestly knew that I would be where I am today. Like, I love my life here, and I'm thankful that I don't feel that way anymore."
The documentary hits on many points: assimilation, Islamophobia, feminism. But one of the strongest themes is the relationship between Dalya and her mom, Rudayna.
Director Julia Meltzer's reason for highlighting it came about organically:
"That came about really through getting to know Rudayna... I thought, 'OK, I'm going to follow Dalya through high school. It's going to be about her high school. I'll find some friends who are around her ... And maybe it'll be about girls in Southern California in a high school, immigrant families.' I thought maybe I was searching for that.
"After I got to meet Rudayna and I learned a little bit about her story and what she had gone through and her marriage ... And then that she decided to return to college in her 50s, I thought, 'Well, that's amazing. That's a story, too.' And I thought looking at these two women, one who's coming of age, one who is ​middle-aged, and both really going through a lot of change and shift. I thought that's an interesting thing to look at those two generations and how they face those challenges, being at different ages and different points in their lives."
Additionally, the documentary explores Rudayna's struggle with loneliness as a divorced middle-aged Muslim woman trying to navigate her new independence. 
The title of the documentary is "Dalya's Other Country," which in the beginning clearly seems to refer to the United States. But slowly, as we check in with her through the years, we begin to see a shift. As of now, Dalya's heart remains here:
"In the beginning, the U.S. was my new country, my other country that I was kind of seeking refuge in. But, at this point in my life, I think Syria is now my other country. I've gotten more Americanized definitely, but life here just became my life and who I am."
"Dalya's Other Country" will kick off POV's 30th anniversary on PBS SoCal on Monday, June 26 at 9 pm.
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These days plenty of teenagers document their lives through photographs, but few have had the level of exposure as Nico Young.

He's a senior at Santa Monica High School. 

The images he's shot of his classmates can be seen in the most recent issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Young joined Take Two's Alex Cohen along with his photography teacher, Martin Ledford. 

Like many artists, Young started out small.
"I started taking photographs in middle school of my friends. Kind of in the same way that I do now. I just had this little point and shoot digital camera I would tote around," Young says.
Ledford had known that Young had talent for photography for a while.
"He was able to capture moments that are really hard to do," Ledford says. "You look at his photographs and you just smile. People are happy and they're friendly. There's love in them. It's just a really nice change of how to look at younger people than what we're normally shown through media today."
Ledford decided that Young's work deserved to be seen by professionals.
"I wanted to really start at the top with Nico's work ... why not start with the gold standard: Kathy Ryan [Director of Photography at The New York Times]?" Ledford says. "To my surprise she immediately responded and she loved them."
Nico recalls getting a message from Ryan. "My mom got the email. She came home and she was like 'Nico!' And she read off the email me and she was almost in tears and she was so overwhelmed. I was happy, but I didn't see it leading to anything."
But it did. Ryan gave Young an assignment to photograph images that would eventually be published in the most recent copy of The New York Times Magazine. Young says he didn't have to alter his style too much to fit the new model.
"I was still shooting the way that I normally shot, but it was under the pretext that it would be seen by a national audience. I was thinking what would be interesting to the most amount of people," Young says.
With graduation on the horizon, Young is already looking forward. But that doesn't mean he doesn't want to take advantage of his last few months of high school to capture more photographs.
"This year, what I'm most concerned with is I think it's my last chance to portray adolescense. I hate old photographers who shoot teenagers," Young says. "So I'm trying to shoot as much as possible this last year."
And what about getting his next assignment from the New York Times?
"We'll see about that," Young says with a laugh. "I don't know."
To see the full spread of his photos on The New York Times website, click here.
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