Mum, dad, other: intimate photographs of parents – in pictures

Sage Sohier: Bleaching Ritual

Sage Sohier’s mother was a professional model in her younger years, and the mature woman (on the right here, with Sohier herself centre, and sister Laine left) depicted in her photographs still retains a glamour and grace from that time. In her series Witness to Beauty, Sohier recreates memories from childhood of her mother’s beauty routines, planned and performed in collaboration with an affectionate, wry humour