What's in a name?

There are talented photographers, and then there are talented photographers who have a genius for titles.

That wonderfully unsettling image is made even more disturbing by its title, Mother and Son.

This guy also does great classical references, too, including Adonis and Nymphs (above), and The Judgement of Paris (below):

But it's his family portraits that I find almost unbearably chilling -- like this one, Aunt and Nephew:

The intensity of her fixed smile somehow makes it utterly disturbing.

Whereas his Beauty and the Beast is actually rather lovely:

Echo and Narcissus is much more relaxing than the similarly-themed shot with which I opened this post:

His Two Beauties feels to me like an homage to John and Yoko:

This next one is Prince and Queen, an image of middling upset:

And let's end here, with Dialogue, which appears to be an uncharacteristic shot but, to me, is suffused with the same sense of playfulness and simple visual inventiveness:

This photographer is an utter genius and I don't think I'd ever tire of staring long and hard at his work.