Chronograph is Nick Haymes's twenty-five-year photobook of family life, gathering photographs made between 2001 and 2026 into an immersive chronicle of his partner, Lina, and their two children, Philipp and Lawrence. Across more than 450 pages and nearly a thousand images, the book moves between Los Angeles and New York, turning Haymes's long-running documentary eye toward the people closest to him.
Family here is not sentiment but weather — psychologically charged, contradictory, always shifting. The photographs move through children at play, domestic interiors, bodies in motion, rough play, affection, tension. Haymes never separates beauty from discomfort: innocence leans against recklessness, intimacy against unease, as children grow, relationships bend, bodies change. His photographic language moves between documentary and staged tableau, so even the most spontaneous frame carries a strange, theatrical hush.
Rather than fix family as a stable shape, Chronograph lets it stay volatile — a terrain where closeness can shelter and suffocate in the same breath. The result is a psychological portrait of family life: affection and conflict woven together, the fragile bonds of love tested and renewed, frame by frame.
