Clement Cooper

Before the beginning of the new millennium, Clement Cooper produced a series of thought provoking portraits of children. They are intended to challenge our perceptions of just what a child is and should be. In essence, Cooper’s work is a conscious attempt to break with the calculated construction of the child being the embodiment and personification of our ideals. Cooper’s photographs reach beyond this fallacy in order to present a far more unsettling observation. By offering us these beautiful, deceptively simple photographs, taken in a variety of settings throughout the North West, Cooper has invited the viewer to project on to the subject their own preconceived attitudes, either conscious or unconscious, thus confronting and revealing our own particular failings and desires.

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ISBN: 1 899282 60 2