In 1999 Christopher Anderson climbed aboard a handmade wooden boat, the Believe in God, with forty-four Haitians trying to reach Florida. The boat took on water and sank in the Caribbean, the coast guard pulled them out, and the photographs of that crossing won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal. He was twenty-nine. Over the next decade he shot the Second Intifada, Afghanistan after 9/11, Chávez's Venezuela. Then his son was born in 2008 and he started photographing inside his own house, almost by accident. It took him two years to realise that this, and not the rest, was his life's work.
Pia is his daughter, and these are the photographs made between 2014 and 2020, the years the family left New York for Paris. You watch a child grow up, but above all you watch the moment she stops simply being photographed and starts holding her own pose, deciding for herself what to show her father. Time passes and you feel it. Anderson calls it a declaration of hope.