Stacy Krantiz’s photographic series From the Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood is an intense, visceral and unglamorized engagement with a raw and elementary, almost primeval, world of adolescence—where young testosterone, adrenaline, and substance-fueled males partake in the recreational rituals of coming of age, while living life on the edge. Kranitz was initially drawn to her subject matter through her desire to explore “a hypothesis connecting violence and catharsis.” Yet, beneath the surface, the work allows Kranitz to channel issues related to domestic violence evidenced in her own childhood and reconcile the passing of her youth with her perception of the associated physical and psychological risks and fears. “Those formative years you build relationships with things.