Pictures from the Garden is a collection of seven powerful photographic essays made in response to Paddy Summerfield’s influential book, Mother and Father, by leading UK photographers Sian Davey, Matthew Finn, Nik Roche, Alex Schneideman, Jem Southam, Paddy Summerfield, Alys Tomlinson and Vanessa Winship.
In Pictures from the Garden, the photographers travelled to Summerfield’s house in Oxford to discover a personal route to explore the emotions and themes that were evoked in the book. By photographing in the same space that set the scene for Summerfield’s original work, the photographers imbued themselves in the physical and psychological world depicted in its pages.
