Martin Mlecko Private Life

Taken over three decades, these amateur snapshots depict the familiar events of modern family life: births, weddings, vacations, parties, graduations, visits and confirmations. Compiled by Berlin-based artist Martin Mlecko, who scoured flea markets and discarded albums to collect them, they have been re-photographed and enlarged, a process which blurs the photographs and gives them a painterly quality. Viewers are both drawn in by their connection to the pictures' nostalgia and distanced by the artist inserting himself into these scenes of private life.