Since the invention of photography, the family has been the subject of photographic observation, both in personal photo albums and in artistic series.

 The exhibition, conceived by Ingo Taubhorn, curator at the House of Photography, presents current artistic projects that highlight both the diversity of photographic approaches and the range of family models, ways of life, and complex interpersonal dynamics. The photographic gaze breaks through the everyday and questions prevailing norms. Traditional and new role models, intimate moments of parenting and growing old, being overwhelmed, and chaos are examined as well as love, support, and despair in one’s own family.

 The series, all of which were created after 2010, were selected according to the criteria of their photographic and thematic diversity. The participating artists develop the legacy of the previous generation of artistic family photography around Larry Sultan, Nan Goldin, and Sally Mann and explore the current state of the genre. In the selected series by well-known photographers from around the world, subjective experiences and objective considerations shared by people across borders are made visible. The exhibition Family Affairs can thus also be understood as a transcontinental photographic discourse.

Artists:

Nancy Borowick, Katharina Bosse, Elinor Carucci, John Clang, Daniel W. Coburn, Neil DaCosta, Siân Davey, Jaimie Diamond, Vincent Ferrané, Gustavo Germano, Eric Gyamfi, Lucia Herrero, Lebohang Kganye, Grégoire Korganow, Katharina Meyer, Dario Mitidieri, Lee-Ann Olwage, Trent Parke, Linn Schröder, Daniel Schumann, and Akihito Yoshida.

source: https://www.deichtorhallen.de/en/ausstellung/family-affairs