– I love flying to space. When I grow up, I want to fly to Saturn's rings and not get frozen but fly all the way from the moon to Saturn.

Olav Andreas Nicolaas Skogstad, 5 years old. Kampen, Oslo, Norway.

Alter Ego is a visual and text-based documentary project that explores children's free imagination and creative self-understanding at an age before the structure of school and the algorithms of screens begin to shape them. Through staged portraits and conversations with five-year-olds, the project investigates who children believe they are, and who they could be, when given full freedom of choice.