Lydia Goldblatt - Still Here

Lydia Goldblatt - Still Here
In her series "Still Here", Goldblatt utilizes extreme light and shade to emphasize human narrative e.g. mortality, stillness, love and loss, and time. Like Colin Gray, her subject matter is limited, usually focusing on one subject or detail, sometimes with extreme close-ups. Similarly, like Gray, she focuses on her aging parents, and there's a sort of haunting tenderness in her photos. You can feel the emotion, even with close-ups of subjects like a closed eyelid, and feel the love that she has for these people. Her images are absolutely stunning.

Colin Gray

Colin Gray - In Sickness and In Health

Colin Gray did a series called "The Parents"in 1980, documenting his parents, and later continued the project with "In Sickness and In Health" in 2000, documenting their deterioration and subsequently his mother's death. The photos are simple, yet complex, with limited material and space, taking place mostly in a hospital. He used his photography as a way of understanding this deterioration and loss of two people nearest and dearest to him. Though the material is limited, the pictures themselves leave a resounding mark on the viewer, and not once do we lose interest in viewing these beautifully rendered images.