London-based photographer Robin Cracknell explores themes of love, loss and memory using a unique non-digital process combining traditional film photography and cinematography, and shooting with old, sometimes damaged cameras and salvaged 35mm cine film. In his series Childhood, single father Cracknell offers a stylized, personal vision of childhood through the world of his only son Jake.
“Rather than documenting his life in the conventional way photographs do,” Cracknell writes, “I was actually restaging episodes and conjuring feelings from my own childhood. Parenthood does, in mysterious and sometimes unpleasant ways, take us back to our own childhoods….We are sutured into every snapshot we take and every picture, especially of our children, is, in some way, a self-portrait.”
acid summer, 2010. Archival Pigment Print, 16 x 20 in. Ed. of 5
arundel gardens, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 12 x 16 in. Ed. of 5
eleven / tape, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 12 x 16 in. Ed. of 5
grief tourist, 2012. Archival Pigment Print, 16 x 20 in. Ed. of 5
jake, maine, 2014. Archival Pigment Print, 16 x 12 in. Ed. of 5
murderer, 2009. Archival Pigment Print, 16 x 12 in. Ed. of 5
swim, 2013. Archival Pigment Print, 12 x 16 in. Ed. of 5
Images courtesy Sous Les Etoiles Gallery