These sensitive images are compelling, humorous, and aesthetically rich. They offer a window into the world of childhood, the chance to re-examine our past. Allison is a rare subject, apparently unaware of, or perhaps unconcerned about, her position as object.
The love between the photographer and her subject adds a powerful emotional dimension, as if the audience were privy to a conversation between them.
Allison's dark, expressive eyes are often the focal point, strikingly honest amidst the proverbial setting of the suburban living room or backyard.
This series offers the viewer not only the opportunity to re-examine, and re-imagine the narrative of childhood, but a rare glimpse into moments, selves on the brink of being lost. It is that crystallization of the ephemeral that draws, and holds, the eye of the camera, and the viewer.
Photo by Amy Williams
