you are:
people who consider themselves being family, but do not fit into the traditional family image* and are willing to be portrayed by me.
*heterosexual parents which are a woman and a man in a long-term and sexual exclusive first and only marriage with biological children
period of time:
The shootings will take about 2 to 3 hours per family and are scheduled for the period from May 10th to June 15th. For your help you will of course get prints of your portraits for free!
realization and goal
With this work, I would like to criticize the image of the „perfect family“ (mostly traditional constellations) and the way it is depicted photographically. To do so, I want to portray families that do not qualify for the traditional family image. By staging a homely environment and typical poses, which are intended to show the relationships between the people, I want to create an exaggeratedly harmonious atmosphere. The „standardized“ and uniform imagery of the family portrait is intended to make the viewer understand that all constellations are families equally. Nevertheless, I also want to criticize the „classic“ way of depicting family, which is acting as a symbol against the diversity of family due to it pushing all constellations in the same shape. In addition, I want to address the efforts that are often made to maintain the supposedly perfect image of a family towards society.
imagery examples
Jamie Diamond‘s series:
Constructed Families
