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© KayLynn Deveney

The concept in itself is easy: the photographer acquaints herself with a neighbour, an elderly man who's living on his own. She starts taking pictures of his day-to-day life. She photographs his quirky habits and crazy rituals. In and of themselves the photographs are nice, but they are taken further. The object they show gives commentary on what he himself sees. Sometimes he has written what happens and sometimes he shows a beautiful insight into his own mortality. Maybe it's compulsory to become a philosopher at the age of 91.

"The Day-To-Day Life of Albert Hastings" is part of the exhibition "Relative Closeness" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. And now I notice it closed on the 8th. The museum is free, and a nice place to look at pictures. You can check out their website and see if there's anything else of interest.

Crossposted to salon_virtuel.