PAUL COHEN: Things Aren’t Always as Mother ReportsWITH AN ESSAY BY VAL WILLIAMS Redolent with both sadness and hope Things Arent Always as Mother Reports is an extended series of colour portraits and landscapes made in the documentary style through which Paul Cohen interrogates the idea of family. It is a tense document about the here and now. In the knowledge that photography can sometimes reveal what isnt always apparent, Cohen made his sons the subject of this work in the hope that he might get to

There were no facilities

Photographing the urban social landscape

But these are no ordinary babies – Chairman baby

or in personal associations

Creative Camera: 30 years of Writing was published by Manchester University Press

the lie you tell yourself that keeps you in the cycle of addiction

but most of the photographs in this book are the result of having one

subjects and objects in the images

He has exhibited and published worldwide and his work is in many major photographic collections

A World Observed was published in 1970

It is as if we are being invited in to read his private diaries and the openess he shows is both compelling and something that we can all relate to

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