WILLIAM JOSEPHS RADFORD
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Family Matters

2020
Originally intended as a statement against the idealised family album. The concept derived from the desire to do family portraiture without conforming with the ‘happy family’ aesthetic. The tights serve to distance, distort and discomfort familiar faces, replacing white shirts and smiles with stockings and a frown. 

​The series has since evolved to also reflect on the ‘strangers’ in my family. The members which fall into a limbo between stranger and familiar. Whether its a third cousin twice removed, that weird uncle you met at a wedding once, or the members which live on in photographs.
Family album, Christmas dinner, 2018.
Josh sunbathing & dark background with grape vine shadows. Family summer holiday.
Rebecca Josephs & Chandy Haggett, here comes the air plane with a dark backdrop.
Self portrait on empty train, scenic views through window.
John Harris, peeling an apple against a black background.
Joshua Josephs soaking up the sun, summer vacation, 2018.
Richard Josephs in his greenhouse, glaring through the broken windowpane.
Performance in self portraiture, exploring the notions of posture and body language through photography.
Chandy Haggett, my mother preparing food.
Family pets, Puss is the oldest living family member in cat years.
My mothers new boyfriend, with rocking chair and dogs.
Tassia Josephs, my sister with a past boyfriend.
Richard Josephs, my uncle stood outside his house in Oxford.
Tassia Josephs, intimate portrait holding mothers hand.
Uncle Richard in the swimming pool, family vacation 2018.
Mum and Tass at the beach in Malaga, Summer of 2019.
Enveloped by flowers & waiting at the train station. Suffocating Self portraits.
Mum and Dad preparing Christmas Dinner, waving knifes.
Josh in his car & Mum with a gun. Strange family album.
Bloodline having a swim, close relatives in the pool.
Michael Radford, depicted against a dark backdrop and at Christmas.

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