Nicholas Nixon is an American photographer, known for his documentary work.
The study of his that I am most interested in is his collection ‘The Brown Sisters’. The study follows the growth of 4 sisters, Bebe, Heather, Mimi and Laurie (including the photographers wife) from the year 1975 up to the present day.
Although I could not recreate a project of this scale in my timeframe, I think it is a very interesting idea.
Unlike many photo study showing growth, Nixon has not tried to recreate the clothing, setting of position of the girls, and has instead allowed an interesting collection of the photos, with their clothing reflecting the years they are taken on.
There is some consistency in the photos however, in terms of the black and white colouring, the order of the girls and usually the general upper body framing.

The order of the images below are from most recent to first –

Nixon attracted me to study as i closely can relate to him. I have 4 aunties (Abbie – my mum, Natalie, Romany & Summer) they too take very similar photos to this every year. Iam going to find these photographs and make a separate post for the.