Now You See Me began as a project considering the way in which older people are represented today and positioned within our society.
Hearing older people speak of feeling less visible and less relevant as they become older, Roy Milani wanted to understand this feeling of growing irrelevance and invisibility. He wanted to challenge the tropes commonly used when representing older people and, in effect, make the ‘invisible’ visible.
The photographs explore notions of age, gender, the body and beauty but also, in working closely with and co creating this work with his models, it became more personal - people revealing the emotional space they inhabit at a singular moment in time bounded by the continuum of a life.
