Richard Billingham's "Ray's a Laugh", published in 2000 by Scalo, is bone jarring chronicle of the parts of life that shouldn't ... the life they tried, but wouldn't, and dreams thaat simply couldn't.
Some of Richard's own words:
"My father Raymond is a chronic alcoholic. He doesn't like going outside, my mother Elisabeth hardly drinks, but she does smokes a lot. She likes pets and things that are decorative. My brother Jason was taken into care when he was 11, but now he's back with Ray and Liz again. Recently he became a father.
Dad was some kind of mechanic, but he has always been an alcoholic."
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" It's not my intention to shock, to offend, to sensationalise, be polyitical or whatever, only to make work that is spiritually meaningful as I can make it - in all of these photographs I never bothered with the things like negatives. Some of them are marked and scratched. I just used the cheapest film and took them to be processed at the cheapest place." (moj čovek ) "I was trying to make order out of chaos."
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