When researching into Billingham i found a very interesting quote of his...
"I was living in this tower block; there was just me and him. He was an alcoholic, he would lie in the bed, drink, get to sleep, wake up, get to sleep, didn't know if it was day or night. But it was difficult to get him to stay still for more than say 20 minutes at a time so I thought that if I could take photographs of him that would act as source material for these paintings and then I could make more detailed paintings later on. So that's how I first started taking photographs." (Richard Billingham)
I really like the idea that his work is not nessacerily intentional, he was initially just capturing images to turn into paintings but now that he has had so much positive feedback on his images he went forward to galleries etc with these images and now has a new found fame out of taking images where the door to family life has been kicked wide open and what used to be very private is now becoming very public.
I also find the fact that he uses the cheapest film he could find and just lets the negatives get marked and scratched because he feels it adds towards the feel and story behind his images.
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