The mood of Vincent Ferrané’s photo series “Milky Way” is often one of awe, but he doesn’t submit to romanticization.
These are the rhythms of an extraordinary, and extraordinarily demanding, time in the life of Vincent Ferrané’s family.,” which documents his wife breast-feeding their infant child, is somewhere between that of fashion photography and of amateur home snapshots: starkly composed, brightly lit scenes present a world deeply private and tender—a mother and baby joined repeatedly in the act of nourishment, as the father looks on, present but apart.
In an underwater shot depicting a similar pinch of the breast, milk curls in a small white plume, a lock of Ferrané’s wife’s hair reddens, her submerged skin pales, and we seem to enter the realm of a Pre-Raphaelite dream.But Ferrané, who took the title of this series from a Greek myth about the creation of our galaxy, doesn’t submit to romanticization.