What makes this observation striking is that it\u2019s happening in parallel with his daughter\u2019s emergence into language. While his father loses the ability to name things, they\u2019re just starting to discover it. We\u2019re witnessing three generations and three different relationships with meaning and interpretation, captured in photographs that were never shot with that in mind. \u201cThere were images that I felt were interesting the moment I shot them, and others that I didn\u2019t really pick up on until years later,\u201d Jeremy tells It\u2019s Nice That. \u201cIt was important to me to select images that retained a feeling of discovery, mystery or uncertainty. There\u2019s an unresolved quality to most of the pictures that I think allows for more interpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sequencing unfolds like life itself \u2013 sometimes chaotic, other times beautiful, and a lot of the time completely unknown. The narrative was developed with Apartamento\u2019s Nacho and Robbie, who helped draw parallels between the images. For instance, there\u2019s a photograph of Jeremy\u2019s daughter on the beach that appears opposite one of his father shielding his eyes from harsh sunlight. Both images are overwhelmed by light, but the emotional registers couldn\u2019t be more different. In the daughter\u2019s image, \u201cthe tone is more confident and confrontational\u201d, says Jeremy, as she\u2019s divided between shadow and brightness, her eyes clenched together. The father \u201cseems more cowed and defensive\u201d. Behind him, a garden is chained off, and a placard reads \u2018Portrait\u2019, the name of a rose planted there. \u201cIn both cases, the shade is insufficient; on the left, the shadow of the beach umbrella and on the right, my shadow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the book drifts through spaces that hold these lives together \u2013 like the living room in the middle of a Christmas present unwrapping or the garden for a game of tennis. We also see the shift from the familiar childhood house to the strange and empty nursing home, while objects like a fallen book or a resting hand mirror one another across the page. They\u2019re small and almost incidental moments, but together they build a visual language of a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What makes this observation striking is that it\u2019s happening in parallel with his daughter\u2019s emergence into language. While…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}