The Father
Paternal archetypes in contemporary urban life.
The Father follows gestures of protection, instruction, authority and inheritance across contemporary public life. Some images involve parents and children; others locate paternal roles in costume, religion, leadership and masculine display.
The series treats fatherhood as more than a biological relationship. The figure can nurture and judge, offer safety and impose order, remain present as a body or act through an inherited social script.
Rather than forcing each scene into a fixed archetype, the photographs ask how paternal power becomes visible in ordinary encounters. The work stays with its contradictions, considering how care and hierarchy continue to travel together even as family forms and expectations change.
