SHAVING LESSONS PHOTOGRAPHS

1990s EA/HU/0048

These photographs speak of an intimate moment between a father and a son shaving, most likely for the first time. A rite of passage that needs to be documented. Reminiscent of a Richard Billingham aesthetics except there is no tragedy, these life-affirming shots nonetheless have a certain mysterious charge to them. As if suspended in time, they show an act so mundane as to become magical.

SHAVING LESSONS PHOTOGRAPHS

1990s EA/HU/0048

These photographs speak of an intimate moment between a father and a son shaving, most likely for the first time. A rite of passage that needs to be documented. Reminiscent of a Richard Billingham aesthetics except there is no tragedy, these life-affirming shots nonetheless have a certain mysterious charge to them. As if suspended in time, they show an act so mundane as to become magical.