If her images appear unsettling, that’s our own hang-ups, says Aneta Bartos, who photographed herself with her ageing father
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Colin Pantall began photographing his daughter, Isabel, in the delivery room moments after she was born. From then on, “it was just constant”, he says. Previously, the pictures he took were architectural, environmental, sometimes historical; but becoming a father re-oriented him entirely. The transition wasn’t effortless. In the early days his experience of fatherhood was spiked with feelings of claustrophobia and intense anxiety – fear of Isabel’s death, fear of his own. A sense that he could easily become obsolete.
Diana Markosian, the Armenian-American photographer best known for her stunning revisitation of the Beslan massacre,…