Max McGonigal is a London-based photographer whose work explores family, relationships and what lies inbetween.
Photography, for me, is an act of attention. My work explores the intimate spaces of family life — the gaps between people, the weight of time, the things that accumulate between fathers and sons. My current project, My Father, My Son, uses seriality and portraiture to examine how photography bears witness to relationships shaped by presence, absence, and rupture.
Life stories
I have been a son for 53 years. I have been a father for twenty four years. I have been taking photographs since I was nine. My Father, My Son is where those three things intersect — a sustained look at the bond between fathers and sons, and at what photographs can carry across time that words alone cannot. Learn more
My brother Clive and his son Josiah - the day they met for the first time.
What is it that is either different or important about your relationship?