Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
Motor Neuron Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that creeps beneath the surface, slowly attacking the upper and lower motor neurons. Like a chameleon MND disguises, and mirrors other diseases. No way of knowing if that is what it is, or when it started. Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing of The Light is a project that explores and documents the emotional terrain of my parent's life as they and I come to terms with the pronouncement of my father's Motor Neuron Disease.
I began photographing my parent's in September 2009 during which the diagnosis of my Dad's MND was yet to be confirmed. Since this time all our fears were confirmed, and so began our journey, as we came to terms with the present situation and thoughts on the future.
This work displays the trust and consent between me as the photographer and subject, being my parents. The images not only reveal my parent's day-to-day life but also display the quiet contemplative moments as they lucidly meditate on past, present and future with the realisation that their world will no longer be the same.
These images intend to go beyond the personal and permeate through to the viewer with notions of loss of freedom, endurance, love, and family relations.
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Hannah Laycock, from the series Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
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Hannah Laycock, from the series Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
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Hannah Laycock, from the series Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
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Hannah Laycock, from the series Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
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Hannah Laycock, from the series 'Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light' © the artist
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Hannah Laycock, from the series Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
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Hannah Laycock, from the series Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
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Hannah Laycock, from the series Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
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Hannah Laycock, from the series Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
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Hannah Laycock, from the series Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing Of The Light
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Since 2009, Hannah Laycock has set out to document her parents’ situation since the diagnosis that her Father has Motor Neuron Disease. A quietly powerful and poignant series, Railing At The Enthrallment To The Failing of The Light combines portrait, landscape and still life. The works freely coalesce to create a barometer of family relationships overcast by the presence of an ever-degenerative disease. Here Hannah Laycock skillfully encapsulates closeness and stillness, resilience and stamina, tenderness and slowly losing. A visually fluent project, I keep going back to these images as they are deft in what they call to mind; that certain something we all know, feel or have felt.
Celia Davies, Photoworks