RICHARD BILLINGHAM is an English photographer but was first a painter. His photographs, of his parents in their tower story block, were discovered by one of his teachers in his university room. His photos mainly consisted of documenting his parents relationship, his dads battle with alcohol consumption and his mums addiction with puzzles. BILLINGHAM has also made many short films, the most recent being, Ray and Liz, which told his childhood story.
The colours in the image are very bright and saturated. Overall the image is very light and airy, and there isn’t a very large tonal range, as there are mostly only light tones and near to no dark tones, except BILLINGHAMs’ dads jeans. There are various different types of textures within this image, such as the carpet, the tiles on the wall and the wooden door. The linear aspects direct the eye to the figure in the image, this aspect is very clever and means the viewer is instantly drawn into the image. RICHARD BILLINGHAMs’ dad struggled with alcholism, so the image clearly shows how bad his situation was. This image is clearly not staged but documentative.