Photographer Achim Lippoth has a practised eye for the complexities and contradictions of modern childhood. By using child models to stage scenes from everyday life, Lippoth casts normal activities with a complex sub-text, questioning the viewer’s innocence and complicity.
Whether upstaging the traditional childhood portrait, or creating post-apocalyptic ‘Lord of the Flies’ style scenes in his ‘Little Wolves’ series, each Lippoth set-up is carefully managed. His study of a training facility for young Chinese gymnasts is unbearably poignant, an empty view of a space devoted to the quest for a dubious physical excellence.
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Achim Lippoth, Pictures (Kehrer Verlag, €48)
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