RD BILLINGHAM RAY´S A LAUGH

Photographer and painter Richard Billingham (born 1970) grew up in a cramped, high-rise tenement apartment with his mother and fathe r in Birmingham, England. His father, Ray, was an unemployed, chronic alcoholic, often sleeping the whole day through, while Liz, Bi llingham's overweight and heavily tattooed mother, filled her home with porcelain dolls and jigsaw puzzles, housing ten cats and thr ee dogs. These are Billingham's subjects. In stark comparison to conventional family photos around the dinner table or in front of t he Chris...[Read more]