A series of photographs made over eight years, Julian Germain captured the quiet, contemplative existence of an old man living alone in a small house in a city on the south coast of England. Unfettered by the misplaced aspirations of the modern world, Charlie spent the last years of his life absorbed in his memories of his wife, his children, his love for flowers, music and the quotidian pleasures of the crossword, and his albums of his own photographs. Germain’s photographs of Charlie, his home and the things he owned are a beautiful, gentle portrait of a gentleman in his twilight years.

イギリス人フォトグラファー Julian Germainが、1992年に出会ったイギリス南部の街に一人暮らしするCharles Albert Lucien Snellingという老人を8年以上に渡って追ったドキュメント。妻や子供、そして花を愛したCharlesの姿を、Julianによる写真とCharles自身が持っていたアルバムの写真で構成。2005年の発売後、大きな賞賛と共に完売となったものをMACKによって2011年に再発行された。
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