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Inventory (2004)

Commissioned by Alternative Arts for Spit-Lit, the Women’s Literary Festival in Spitalfields, London. Artists included: Susan Andrews, Ingrid Hesling, Betsy Schneider, and myself.

REDHEAD: A series of large 10 x 8 portraits
Photographs examining a child’s place in his own and other’s families. This project is a development of the idea of resemblance: children are strikingly similar to existing family members, and a shift in relationships occurs when a new child is introduced.

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RED SHIFT: A photographic essay
In the early 20th Century, astronomers noticed that certain galaxies had a reddish appearance, and in 1929 Edwin Hubble calculated that the amount of redness related to their distance from the Earth and the speed with which they are moving away: the light of receding galaxies is pushed to the red end of the spectrum. In the late 20th Century Heather McDonough began to notice that small heavenly bodies close at hand also tend to take on a reddish hue. She documented this as an ongoing series.

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