David Williams

Sixth Form Girl, Primary I Girl from 'Pictures From No Man's Land'

About this artwork

Williams’s staged photograph shows two girls, one of them senior, the other a junior at St Margaret’s School in Edinburgh. Both are wearing their school’s uniform. Here the photographer explores time: scrutinising what happens between the ages of five and eighteen. The younger girl is bright-eyed, well-buttoned and enthusiastic, while the older one seems self-conscious or rebellious in her pose and style.

Updated before 2020

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David Williams

David Williams