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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 instinct of a new father trying to freeze time and not let a single second of the experience slip away. 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 was preparation for creating these images.
This series was turned into a book, *SON*, published in 2012, which captures a moment in time in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, following 9/11 and the 2008 economic crash, when artists’ lofts still defined 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 amid the Trump/COVID-19 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 collaboration between photographer and subject, as Pia takes control of her character. The passage of time is accompanied by a certain melancholy, but also by a message of hope that guides the photographs.” – Christopher Anderson
Stanley/Barker, 2020
160 pages
21.5 × 25.5 cm
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 instinct of a new father trying to freeze time and not let a single second of the experience slip away. 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 was preparation for creating these images.
This series was turned into a book, *SON*, published in 2012, which captures a moment in time in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, following 9/11 and the 2008 economic crash, when artists’ lofts still defined 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 amid the Trump/COVID-19 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 collaboration between photographer and subject, as Pia takes control of her character. The passage of time is accompanied by a certain melancholy, but also by a message of hope that guides the photographs.” – Christopher Anderson
Stanley/Barker, 2020
160 pages
21.5 × 25.5 cm
ISBN 9781913288150
