Family ties in the "Family Tree" photo project (18 photos)

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Aging is a visual process. But photographer Bobby Neel Adams has made it even more visual, so to speak. In his latest project, "Family Tree," he created a series of portraits of immediate family members. Each photo is a "torn" image, with one part being a photo of the mother/father, and the other part a photo of the daughter/son.

The result is very interesting. These aren't just "then and now" photos of one person; they are photos of two people in the present day, with clear family ties between them.

Bernadette (47) and Alec (14).

Photographer Bobby Neel Adams always believed he resembled his mother in the lower part of his face and his father in the upper part. He explored this question—how people resemble their parents—in a photo shoot called "Family Tree." Beginning in the late twentieth century, he used analog photography techniques, combining two portraits, split down the middle, and gluing the halves together with rubber cement.

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Amy (41) and Audrey (4).

While these photographs focus on the aging process, they also draw our attention to the similarities between relatives, especially those closest to us, such as father/son, mother/daughter, and father/daughter and mother/son.

Arthur (94) and Carol (66).

"This composite photograph can be seen as an eerie life map: in fact, the montage of two different family members is sometimes mistaken for a montage of portraits of the same person at different stages of life," the photographer explains of his project.

Photographer Bobby Neal Adams (left) and his father, Mack.

Bobby Neal Adams was born in North Carolina and now lives in New York City. Most of his work deals with the changes that occur in the human body under the influence of time or circumstances.

Nancy (63) and Dorothy (87).

In the late 1980s, he began using a photomontage technique he calls "photosurgery." He claims to create his collages by hand, without the use of a computer. Two photographs are cut by hand, and the different halves are glued together to form a single portrait, which clearly demonstrates the laws of genetics at work.