Mom Takes Darkly Humorous & Controversial Family Photos

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Susan Copich is a photographer, actress and model from New York. When not in front of the camera, she finds herself behind it, creating fictitious, dark and domestic scenarios using herself, her daughters and her husband as the actors.

In her series “Domestic Bliss”, Susan has combined metaphor, irony and satire to create a dialogue around the topical subjects of family, parenthood and relationships juxtaposed within the larger context of current societal issues like gun control, suicide, class, and privacy loss.

According to Susan: “Staging each drama to look like a marketing campaign for an ideal life: bright colors, appeasing classic composition, beautiful clothes; the carefully constructed veneer becomes the tool to draw the audience to harsher realities of shadow and denial. The images ask the audience to come closer, laugh nervously or knowingly, acknowledge their own dark reflection, recoil, revisit and then rehash the experience later.”

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Comments

35 responses to “Mom Takes Darkly Humorous & Controversial Family Photos”

  1. Gtfo plz. Avatar
    Gtfo plz.

    Cocaine for christmas ;)

  2. Michael Thayre Avatar
    Michael Thayre

    cool

  3. Carla Palmero Avatar
    Carla Palmero

    Absolutely Amazing …..great job!

  4. Cheryl McGinnis Avatar
    Cheryl McGinnis

    derivative. it’s all been done before by far more intriguing artists that don’t slap you in the face with the obvious

    1. Józef Pies Avatar
      Józef Pies

      so what? maybe they were supposed to be just what they are

  5. Asa JustAsa Avatar
    Asa JustAsa

    Her brain be like a box of crayons missing all the pretty colors.

  6. Albert Davies Avatar
    Albert Davies

    Amazing :)

  7. Evalynn Sundeen Avatar
    Evalynn Sundeen

    As a young girl I always wondered why there were so many images of old men grabbing at young women so the image of the mom grabbing at a young (er) man with the children in the background spoke to me. Also the fact that the man’s face is never in the shot speaks volumes.

    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Didn’t it premise by saying her family and also husband is mentioned twice I believe… her constant hair dyes make her look older . Her husband is grabbing her breasts in the kitchen shot… not much different than you described..

    2. Frizbit Avatar
      Frizbit

      I think the salient point is that one child is pointing a gun at her sibling.

  8. Matthew Jones Avatar
    Matthew Jones

    Even rich white people have a dark side

  9. Kim Jong-Trump Avatar
    Kim Jong-Trump

    This is what happens when rich housewives have too much spare time …

  10. Carlos Batista Avatar
    Carlos Batista

    lovelly!!!!!!!!!

  11. Denis Franco Avatar
    Denis Franco

    i dont get the 4th one…

  12. I don’t particularly find them funny nor darkly humorous.

  13. uhyeahno Avatar
    uhyeahno

    I wished she took the effort to light her scenes instead of trying to fix it all in post. That tell-tale halo is off-putting to me.

    1. Marsha Avatar
      Marsha

      Where exactly do you see any halo affect… pre or post ? lol

  14. Jimmy The Greek Avatar
    Jimmy The Greek

    Someone has too much time on her hands.

  15. Chuck Prudence Avatar
    Chuck Prudence

    Those are really good photos. It’s a shame your website doesn’t let me watch them properly.

  16. Eric Baise Avatar
    Eric Baise

    very funny

  17. who needs attention?

  18. I hate this type of Facial Expressions

  19. Nathan Lewis Avatar
    Nathan Lewis

    Yea I’d probably cry too if I spilled the milk.

    1. Sometimes when your kids spill the milk, the juice, the tee, the spagetti, the… for the whole day you really want to howl like a wolf or cry ;).

  20. Christie Lynn Hoffman Avatar
    Christie Lynn Hoffman

    Nor sure if I like them or not but creative & interesting 4 sure!

  21. Andres Herrera Avatar
    Andres Herrera

    that was boring

  22. Ali Ozlati Avatar
    Ali Ozlati

    each photo have very deep meaning inside

  23. Loved these!

  24. chuckster Avatar
    chuckster

    Dig it!

  25. pretty lame

    1. crackdennumber1 Avatar
      crackdennumber1

      Yes I’m sure you could do better………

      1. crackdennumber8 Avatar
        crackdennumber8

        yes

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