Christopher Anderson's first child, Atlas, was born in 2008. He began photographing this experience in a completely organic and naive way. It was the natural action of a new father trying to stop time and not let a single second of the experience pass him by. As a photographer, he had never photographed his own personal life. It never occurred to him that these photographs would become part of his "work." They were outside of what he considered his photography. He had been taking these photographs for about two years when Christopher Anderson realized that these photographs were, in fact, his life's work and that everything he had done up to that point had been preparation for making these images.
This series became the book, SON, published in 2012, which depicts a moment in time in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, after 9/11 and the economic crash of 2008, when artists' lofts still made up the community before luxury apartments took over the landscape.
Pia could be called the spiritual sequel to this book. But this time, it marks a new era and a search for hope in the Trump / COVID19 reality. This time, Anderson's daughter Pia is the protagonist and muse, and the backdrop is her French family's return to Paris (Anderson became a naturalized French citizen in 2018).
"The images depict a father-daughter relationship as well as a photographer-subject collaboration as Pia takes control of her persona. The passage of time is accompanied by a certain melancholy, but also by a declaration of hope that guides the photographs." – Christopher Anderson
Stanley/Barker, 2020
160 pages
8.5 × 10 inches
ISBN: 9781913288150
Christopher Anderson's first child, Atlas, was born in 2008. He began photographing this experience in a completely organic and naive way. It was the natural action of a new father trying to stop time and not let a single second of the experience pass him by. As a photographer, he had never photographed his own personal life. It never occurred to him that these photographs would become part of his "work." They were outside of what he considered his photography. He had been taking these photographs for about two years when Christopher Anderson realized that these photographs were, in fact, his life's work and that everything he had done up to that point had been preparation for making these images.
This series became the book, SON, published in 2012, which depicts a moment in time in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, after 9/11 and the economic crash of 2008, when artists' lofts still made up the community before luxury apartments took over the landscape.
Pia could be called the spiritual sequel to this book. But this time, it marks a new era and a search for hope in the Trump / COVID19 reality. This time, Anderson's daughter Pia is the protagonist and muse, and the backdrop is her French family's return to Paris (Anderson became a naturalized French citizen in 2018).
"The images depict a father-daughter relationship as well as a photographer-subject collaboration as Pia takes control of her persona. The passage of time is accompanied by a certain melancholy, but also by a declaration of hope that guides the photographs." – Christopher Anderson
Stanley/Barker, 2020
160 pages
8.5 × 10 inches
ISBN: 9781913288150
