Chronograph, the new photobook by Los Angeles-based photographer NickHaymes, published by Mack_Publishing, begins with a sledgehammer image: the destruction of the Twin Towers, which fell 25 years ago this year. At first, it’s a startling gut-punch of an opening, especially as the viewer flicks through this large photographic collection of Nick’s two kids, Philipp and Lawrence. It doesn’t take long, however, as we stare into the familiarity of these sentimental childhood photos, filled with drooling baby faces, bright eyes and porcelain skin that blooms into teenage acne and whispery facial hair, to realise there was no other way to begin such a collection. As two monoliths of Western iconography fell in New York City, elsewhere, two boys began growing up. It’s a narrative that is equally as macro and micro. It’s through Chronograph that Nick makes some of his greatest statements on youth, pain and loss – it’s almost impossible to escape the shadow of that very first image, but it’s e...