Julian Slagman has been taking photographs of his younger brother for over ten years. A child grows up, becomes a teenager, a young adult. You can see the photographer grow too, experimenting with different styles and approaches, from staged portraiture to more candid snapshots of the child in play, captured from different angles, often from above (as the older and therefore initially taller brother). Fairly little of the ‘stuff’ of childhood is shown; Slagman’s focus is on his brother as he ages, and the marks of experience his body retains, which in this child’s case includes the purposeful scars from medical procedures rather than juvenile accidents.

At first, I am looking for signs of scoliosis beyond the healing incisions and purple scars. But Slagman’s images also capture human interventions in the natural world: a perfectly straight contrail in the blue sky, the branches of a shrub or tree tethered together to keep it growing upright.