According to unofficial statistics, every third child in Russia, and every second boy grows up without a father.
For boys, sons - father is being a kind of roll model, a landmark. It just happened so. When a father leaves his son, the time pasts and a child or teenager develops a certain image in his head, which is formed from stories, photographs and memories. Who is he? How does he behave? What does he do? How does he move, talk, laugh, do I look like him?
Many factors play a role in shaping this image - what background the father left behind, how close he was with his son. However, very often it may not coincide at all with the real personality of a father. Son needs this image for reliance.
Growing up, young people wonder how their life would have been if their father had not left the family or would not have died. This is inevitable, because sooner or later we always turn to the past of our lives. Through these reflections, the image of a father, whom a son may not remember or know personally, but with whom he is inextricably linked, follows him through life, influencing a son's life in a variety of ways. Father gives life, and son involuntarily gives his father immortality, not only through the continuation of the family, but also through the image that he creates.
I lost my father when I was 6 years old, but only now, at 38, I have felt the urgent need to answer all these questions for myself. I also became interested in talking with other men who grew up without a father. As part of this story, through my personal experience and the memories of other characters, I am trying to reflect on the image of the Father in the life of a boy, guy, man. I combine portraiture and archival images to explore this powerful and very strange connection between people who barely knew each other or perhaps had never even met.
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According to unofficial statistics, every third child in Russia, and every second boy grows up without a father.
For boys, sons - father is being a kind of roll model, a landmark. It just happened so. When a father leaves his son, the time pasts and a child or teenager develops a certain image in his head, which is formed from stories, photographs and memories. Who is he? How does he behave? What does he do? How does he move, talk, laugh, do I look like him?
Many factors play a role in shaping this image - what background the father left behind, how close he was with his son. However, very often it may not coincide at all with the real personality of a father. Son needs this image for reliance.
Growing up, young people wonder how their life would have been if their father had not left the family or would not have died. This is inevitable, because sooner or later we always turn to the past of our lives. Through these reflections, the image of a father, whom a son may not remember or know personally, but with whom he is inextricably linked, follows him through life, influencing a son's life in a variety of ways. Father gives life, and son involuntarily gives his father immortality, not only through the continuation of the family, but also through the image that he creates.
I lost my father when I was 6 years old, but only now, at 38, I have felt the urgent need to answer all these questions for myself. I also became interested in talking with other men who grew up without a father. As part of this story, through my personal experience and the memories of other characters, I am trying to reflect on the image of the Father in the life of a boy, guy, man. I combine portraiture and archival images to explore this powerful and very strange connection between people who barely knew each other or perhaps had never even met.