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Mother Over a thirty year period, from 1987 onwards, Matthew Finn collaborated with his mother, Jean, to document her everyday life through a series of portraits taken in her home in Leeds. It is…
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Over a thirty year period, from 1987 onwards, Matthew Finn collaborated with his mother, Jean, to document her everyday life through a series of portraits taken in her home in Leeds. It is also a record of the gradual shift from middle age to old age, and, in Jean's case, to the onset of mixed dementia and a move from the family home into residential care. This is a record of the ordinary, of a daily routine with which we are all familiar.
Quiet domestic interiors act as a stage for life's everyday details, and though the focus is on the individual the bond between mother and son is a powerful constant, even as the balance of that relationship begins to change. It is a poignant body of work, filled with warmth yet conscious of the fragility of life. As Matthew Finn has said, "For my mother and I, this switch of roles was quick.
Diagnosed with mixed dementia two years ago, she fell
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