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Written on the back of this work is: “In 2008, my first child was born. Up until that point, my photographs as a ‘war photographer’ had been about the experiences of others in far away places. Now, for the first time, I found myself photographing my own family… my own experience. It was not a conscious decision. It was quite an organic and ordinary reaction, that of any new father. It didn’t occur to me that these photographs had anything to do with my ‘work’. But I now realize that these images were actually my life’s work and that every photograph I had made up to that moment was just a preparation to make these photographs of my family.” — Christopher Anderson