Toy with Me

A critical look at our childhood playthings.
Mairead Armstrong
Published on February 10, 2014

Overview

Ever thought that your childhood toys defined who you've become as an adult? Photographer Richard Hedger's Toy with Me is a new body of work exploring the intricacies of that notion.

In a series of intriguing portraits, Hedger portrays people from all walks of life — such as Tom Ballard, Brendan Maclean and Alex Greenwich — through the toys of their past.

It's an invitation for audiences to visually match each toy with its significant other, while reflecting on the debate around the increasingly gendered presentation of toys.

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