One strand of contemporary photography is photographing the everyday life of families at home; homes in me in disarray--Sally Mann. Some of this work makes reference back to 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting ---eg., the work of Jan Steen, as with Julie Blackman:

Blackmon says of this series:

These images are both fictional and auto-biographical, and reflect not only our lives today and as children growing up in a large family, but also move beyond the documentary to explore the fantastic elements of our everyday lives, both imagined and real.The stress, the chaos, and the need to simultaneously escape and connect are issue that I investigate in this body of work. We live in a culture where we are both “child centered” and “self-obsessed.” The struggle between living in the moment versus escaping to another reality is intense since these two opposites strive to dominate. Caught in the swirl of soccer practices, play dates, work, and trying to find our way in our “make-over” culture, we must still create the space to find ourselves. The expectations of family life have never been more at odds with each other. These issues, as well as the relationship between the domestic landscape of the past and present, are issues I have explored in these photographs.

In a great many of these images, people are not interacting with each other, but each lives in their own separate world, despite being in the same space----as in Saturday.

Photography becomes liberated as objects are displaced from their original context and digitally placed in a new one.