From Looking for Alice, edited by Trolley Books. (Sian Davey © Michael Hoppen Gallery)"I was very cautious about (the series) not being about diagnosis," Davey said in an interview. "I didn't want to narrow the focus to this, because there are many complex narratives in there — and it's about me as well. I have my own story in there, which I'm beginning to witness more and more."The series, Looking for Alice, begins when Alice is just 1 year old. But in the half-decade since, Davey, 52, has continued to develop this moving body of work, bringing the whole family in Devon, England, into the frame more and more.Davey's photographs are watchful, an outsider looking in on birthday parties, lazy afternoons, and cold winter mornings. But with simple framing and a light touch, Davey both exposes societal prejudices about Down Syndrome (in one photo, Alice hovers at the outskirts of a circle of her sister's teenage friends) and embraces the beautiful ordinariness of her family (in others, Alice romps around on the couch or is doted on by her grandparents).
Looking for Alice, edited by Trolley Books. (Sian Davey © Michael Hoppen GalleryDavey, who is also a practicing psychotherapist, notes that these are the same themes she studies in her professional life."As a psychotherapist it is inevitable, but I'm so interested in these ideas of exclusion and connection," Davey said. "Alice is someone who really defies all those stereotypes. So, while I'm telling a story for Alice, it's also a universal one. One which touches people in very different levels."
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