In 1997, the British photographer Richard Billingham published ... narrative and the trauma plot, is Billingham’s insistence that he bears his parents no ill will. Describing his early ...

Richard Billingham photographed his parents, Ray and Liz, in a series of images that became the book Ray's a Laugh. Credit: Richard Billingham Thirty years on, the subject has yet to let him go.

By Ryan Gilbey Richard Billingham’s stark and anarchic photographs of his parents, squashed together with assorted animals and knick-knacks in a Black Country high-rise, first came to wide attention ...