Masculinities: Liberation through Photography.

I recently visited the barbican exhibition masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Some of the pieces I was inspired by:

My Mother's Cupboards - Anna Fox

Ray's a Laugh- Richard Billingham

The images document the everyday life of Billingham’s mother Elizabeth and father Ray. The series reveals Ray’s severe alcoholism and Elizabeth’s obsessive collecting of pets and cheap chachkies paired with the poverty they have been forced to live in as a result of Ray’s addiction. Billingham chose to shoot the images on the cheapest film he could find and used a harsh flash to add to the rawness and candidness of the series.