un-titled

Collaborative conceptual photography series, 2014
Paola Rigamonti, Demet Erdem, Stella Achimska, Annalisa Burello, Gary Tyrrell

un-titled is a collaborative conceptual photography series exploring modern fatherhood and its unresolved place within contemporary masculine identity. Using the visual codes of fashion photography, the project stages the suited male body — the uniform of the traditional breadwinner — alongside objects associated with care, children and domestic life.

Each image offers a different interpretation of fatherhood: provider, carer, absent presence, divided subject, or man caught between professional identity and parental responsibility. The tension between the business suit and domestic objects exposes the lack of a clear cultural script for the “new father” — a figure increasingly asked to nurture, provide, participate and adapt, without being given an equivalent symbolic language to describe his role.

The title plays on the art-world convention of the untitled work, while also pointing to the social invisibility of fatherhood as a public identity. Unlike professional status, fatherhood often remains implicit, secondary or unnamed: present in private life, but rarely granted an official title within a man’s public image.