Chronograph

Chronograph sees photographer Nick Haymess long-term documentary practice turn to those closest to him, collecting nearly a thousand photographs of family life.
Chronograph brings together more than twenty-five years of photographs made by photographer Nick Haymes between 2001 and 2026, assembling an immersive chronicle of life with his partner, Lina, and their two children, Philipp and Lawrence. Over 450 pages and nearly one thousand images, the book moves between Los Angeles and New York, turning Haymess long-term documentary practice towards those closest to him.

Approaching family life not as a sentimental saga but as something psychologically charged and contradictory, the photographs move between scenes of children, domestic interiors, bodies in motion, rough play, affection, and moments of tension. Haymes refuses to separate beauty from discomfort: innocence sits alongside recklessness, intimacy alongside unease, as children