Photographer Jack Radcliffe has managed to capture a horrifically accurate portrait of a life in his study of his daughter Alison. He set out to photograph her entire life, but found along the way that he was more interested in human relationships in general. Each photograph manages to capture a moment in a young girl’s life, not the life of the photographer’s daughter. There’s no judging as parent, and that was a conscious choice made my Radcliffe. I doubt I could manage that kind of detachment from my kid, even if it only lasted as long as the open and close of a shutter. Radcliffe is able, and the results are beautiful, piercing, and heartbreaking.
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