For the last few years Erik Madigan Heck has been taking photographs of his wife Brianna and their two young boys at their home in Connecticut. Photographs of starry nights, nude bathing, bosky daydreams and light on fabric and skin. A swirling, swimmy dream of life knitted together from sunshot afternoons, religious iconography and a passion for Degas and Klimt.
Now gathered together in a limited-edition book entitled The Garden, Madigan Heck’s photographs offer a strange, beautiful visual imaginary diary of a turbulent time in the photographer’s life as he and Brianna became parents and his beloved mother passed away after contracting Covid-19. This image, he explains, shows “Brianna holding Winston in front of our garage, just before a storm came through.”
