Richard Billingham, Ray's a laugh , Zurich, 1996. In the I am a Camera exhibition, currently running at the Saatchi Gallery in London, a huge white wall is devoted to the work of Richard Billingham. Cats are hurled through the air. Fighting breaks out between cat and dog and between people. There's mess on the floor, on the walls and running down the toilet bowl.
People fall over, drink, smoke, eat and hug.
They are living their lives in the photos on the wall. These, however, are not characters born of the photographer's imagination, this is Billingham's immediate family.