‘There is no normal’: what it’s like to be a teenager today

In the documentary Cusp, a group of teens share the highs and lows of growing up in modern-day Texas, from social media to sexual assault

In summer 2018, photographers Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt were at the tail-end of a road trip from Montana to Austin when they were diverted to a gas station in a small Texas military town. It was two in the morning, but the truck that pulled up next to them was thrumming with energy - music blasting, a group of barefoot teenage girls spilling out of the cab, charisma free-flowing and uncut.

The groups hit it off, and soon Hill and Bethencourt were careening down a dirt road toward a high school party of about 15. Cameras out, they asked the teens about their lives: what's it like to be you? What are you dealing with? What do you want to talk about?