Oliver Raschka: The Odyssey of Youth

The captivating photographs of Oliver Raschka document the life of his two sons as they grow from infancy to teenage. His images of boyhood and early adolescence are deeply resonant yet tantalisingly uncertain. It is as if we recognise the scenes we see – the energy, the interaction, the quicksilver of emotion – and yet can only imagine how it might feel once more to be a child or begin the journey into adolescence. And it is this that gives these images their emotional pull. They ask us to enter the dance of memory and childhood once more; to feel the rhythm of the past even as the steps that might lead us back elude us. For Oliver Raschka does not frame the images according to an adult memory of childhood, but simply observes and records what comes to pass. And, in that transparency of intent, catches in the moment a glinting flash of that distant place of childhood from whence the odyssey of adolescence begins.

Oliver Raschka discusses the importance of unobtrusive observation at Talking Pictures.

talking-pictures.net.au/2024/04/06/oliver-raschka-the-ody...

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