'In Family We Trust' (Michael Csaplar)

Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020 © Nina Robinson

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'In Family We Trust' (Michael Csaplar)

by Nina Robinson
digital image file, 15th June 2020
Given by Nina Robinson, 2021
Photographs Collection
NPG x201494

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  • Nina Robinson (1992-), Marketing Executive; Artist. Artist or producer of 1 portrait.

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Artist's statement: My 86-year-old grandad is a survivor of the Hungarian Uprising and took asylum in the UK in 1956. Even though he’s lived here for all these years, English is not his first language, and the information in the media about coronavirus does not always translate easily. It is up to us, his family, to turn this news into advice he can understand. It is us he relies on for information on keeping safe and we value this sense of responsibility to care for him. We are the ones who explain that we can’t hug him, that he has to wear a mask and that he can’t have his hair cut. In us, he trusts. A few weeks after taking this photograph, my grandad was diagnosed with cancer, which changes my outlook on the image now that I look back at it. He had it then, but he didn’t know and neither did I. I’m overjoyed that he’s made it into this project.

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