Malerie Marder

Even though clearly addressing Marder in their exchange, I’m tempted to think that the “you” here in fact applies to the viewer, too. The viewer is made complicit in these photographs. The viewer becomes part of… let’s call it the game. It is a game, a clearly very adult game. What makes these photographs so good that it’s not a game the viewer is invited to play. It’s a game she or he is made to play.

Richard Billingham

Billingham’s photographs of his family present a strikingly intimate view of life with his alcoholic father Ray and his mother Liz, his younger brother Jason, and numerous pets, in their high-rise flat. Billingham’s work rests precariously between opportunistic family snapshot, journalistic document, and controlled work of art.

Larry Sultan

After studying political sciences at the University of California, Sultan then completed a masters in fine art from the San Francisco Art Institute. Together with Mike Mandel, who he’d met whilst studying in San Francisco, he embarked on a project collating pictures from the government, industry and police documentary archives.

Sally Mann

Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she continues to live and work. She received a BA from Hollins College in 1974, and an MA in writing from the same school in 1975. Her early series of photographs of her three children and husband resulted in a series called “Immediate Family.” In her recent series of landscapes of Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, and Georgia, Mann has stated that she “wanted to go right into the heart of the deep dark South.”