RED SHIFT

RED SHIFT 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 1998 I began to notice that small heavenly bodies close at hand also tend to take on a reddish hue. I have documented this phenomenon as a series of portraits of one child from in 1998. These portraits of Dexter, are from a larger body of work, which includes photographs of his friends and how he has spent his first 16 years on this planet. He has grown up in Dalston, East London in one of London’s fastest changing inner city boroughs. These photographs are a study of change and transformation in a desperate attempt to keep and record every detail before his boyhood is complete.