Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Categories: Photo project

Aging is a visually visible process. But photographer Bobby Neel Adams (Bobby Neel Adams) made it even more visual, so to speak. In his latest project, Family Tree, he created a series of portraits of his closest relatives. Each photo is a "torn" picture, one part of which is a photo of mom/dad, and the second part is a picture of daughter/son.

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

It turned out very interesting. Before us are not just pictures of one person in the style of "then and now", these are pictures of two people at the present time, between whom there are kindred traits.

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Photographer Bobby Neel Adams has always believed that he looks like his mother with the lower part of his face and his father with the upper part of his face. He explored this question — how people are like their parents — in a photo shoot called "Family Tree". Starting at the end of the twentieth century, he used analog photography technologies, combining two portraits torn in the middle and gluing the different halves with rubber glue.

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

And although these photos are dedicated to the aging process, they also draw our attention to the similarity between relatives, especially the closest ones, i.e. between father/son, mother/daughter, father/daughter and mother/son.

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Bobby Neil Adams was born in North Carolina, and now lives in New York. Most of his works are related to the changes that occur with the human body under the influence of time or circumstances.

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

In the late 1980s, he began using a photomontage technique, which he called "photosurgery". The author assures that he composes his collages manually, without using a computer. Two photos are cut by hand, and the different halves are glued together into one portrait, which clearly demonstrates to us the work of the laws of genetics.

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

Family ties in the Family Tree photo project

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