ROBIN CRACKNELL @ SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY

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ROBIN CRACKNELL @ SOUS LES ETOILES GALLERY

February 20th, 2016 by fstop

ROBIN CRACKNELL: CHILDHOOD
MARCH 10 – APRIL 30, 2016

OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 6-8PM

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. The resulting photographs, whose precise, detail-oriented compositions are balanced by deteriorative alterations to the negative, are neither idyllic nor unhappy. Instead, a strange poetry emerges, hinting the son is likewise observing the growth of his father through the event of the photograph. “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.”

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