Richard Billingham

'my father raymond is a chronic alcoholic.
he doesn't like going outside, my mother elizabeth hardly drinks, 
but she does smoke a lot.
she likes pets and things that are decorative.
they married in 1970 and I was born soon after.
my younger brother jason was taken into care when he was 11,
but now he is back with ray and liz again.
recently he became a father.
'dad was some kind of mechanic, but he's always been an 
alcoholic. it has just got worse over the years. 
he gets drunk on cheap cider at the off license. 
he drinks a lot at nights now and gets up late.
originally, our family lived in a terraced house, 
but they blew all the redundancy money and, in desperation, 
sold the house. then we moved to the council tower block, 
where ray just sits in and drinks. 
that's the thing about my dad, there's no subject he's interested
in, except drink.'

'it's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, 
be political or whatever, only to make work that is as spiritually 
meaningful as I can make it - 
in all these photographs I never bothered with things like 
the negatives. some of them got marked and scratched. 
I just used the cheapest film and took them to be processed 
at the cheapest place. I was just trying to make order out of chaos.' - Richard Billingham 

 Richard's dad Ray was an alcoholic, in this image I think that this is clear, he's at the point where he can't stand and we get the feeling like he's like this a lot of the time. 

I like the expression on the faces in this image because of Rays drinking, Ray and Liz (Richard's mother) argued a lot and I like how this has been captured here.

His mother over ate and had many tattoos. 

Here again we see Ray drunk and he's like pushed the cat into the air, I think this is the best image as it has a comical feel to it.