Glasgow-based photographer Craig Gibson has a way with faces. In his series “Boys And Their Fathers,” the artist melds portraits of young men together with portraits of their fathers. With the same head position and lighting, Gibson finds a similarity between the two generations and uses that as the focal point of the composite photo. While looking at the individual portraits you don’t immediately see much resemblance between the two men, but Gibson has a knack for finding it.
The crux of resemblance often turns out to be the eyes – more specifically, the closest eye to the camera. The father and son faces then sort of revolve outward from this point, variously mapping onto each other (some definitely more than others).
The series is certainly a testament to the crapshoot that is genetics, but I wonder what happens when the same technique is applied to couples who start to look alike, or people who resemble their pets?
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