Ageing art

Life is full of surprises, and some of the best come from the people we’ve known all our lives—the ones that we thought we had completely figured out. In

AgeMaps is a project by photographer Bobby Neel Adams in which he does "photo surgery" on portraits to show two different moments in a person's life in

Colin Chillag is a New York based artist who paints these incredible "unfinished" photorealistic portraits of the elderly. Each one of his pieces looks as though Colin decided to step out to lunch or out to the pub before returning to finish the work. However, instead of perfecting them, Chillag allows viewers a glimpse into his process by deliberately revealing all the various steps taken to create his pieces - from pencil sketching, to mixing various colour shade to achieve the final…

Life is full of surprises, and some of the best come from the people we’ve known all our lives—the ones that we thought we had completely figured out. In

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From his Brighton-based studio on the seafront, Mark Powell (previously) pieces together crinkled book pages and postcards laden with travel dispatches. The vintage collages serve as backdrops for the artist’s oversized portraits of older folks, whose pensive stares and deep wrinkles are rendered gently in ballpoint pen. Often magnified, the subjects complement the weathered, ephemeral surfaces that span multiple feet. “I’m currently working on a series of larger works because they have much…

AgeMaps is a project by photographer Bobby Neel Adams in which he does "photo surgery" on portraits to show two different moments in a person's life in

“The Old Age of an Eagle is Better Than the Youth of a Sparrow” (2008)