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Over a thirty year period, from 1987 onwards, Matthew Finn collaborated with his mother, Jean, to document her everyday life through a series of portraits taken in her home in Leeds. This is a record of the ordinary, of a daily routine with which we are all familiar. It is also a record of the gradual shift from middle age to old age, and, in Jean's case, to the onset of mixed dementia and a move from the family home into residential care. It is a poignant body of work, filled with warmth yet conscious of the fragility of life.

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Born in Leeds in 1971, Matthew studied photography at The University of Derby before gaining an MA at Westminster. The recipient of the 2015 Jerwood/ Photoworks Award, his work has been exhibited widely including shows at The Jerwood Space, London; Impressions Gallery, Bradford; and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. Finn is currently involved with the Hull International Photography Festival of which he is a patron. In her essay, Elizabeth Edwards explores the context of the work. A visual and historical anthropologist, Professor Edwards has worked extensively on the relationships between photography, anthropology and history, on the social practices of photography, on the materiality of photographs and on photography and historical imagination.

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