When artists find inspiration in a muse,it’s usually a wife or a lover – but for photographer Matthew Finn it has always been his motherAsked what made him start taking photographs of his mother, Jean, and Matthew Finn laughs. “Why? Because she was there! I was about 16 in 1987. I’d just become seriously interested in photography and needed people – things – to consume pictures of,” he says. The results of his early experimentation with lighting and composition evolved into an ongoing 30-year relationship between his mother and the camera.
Because most of the work is on film, the chances of failure were tall. “But the beauty of doing a body of work like this is that you can revisit things. I might bear gone one weekend and possibly it was raining, and so the light was destitute. So I’d go again. If I was doing it now,it would all be on a digital camera,” he muses.
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Source: guardian.co.uk