Known for his uncompromising documentation of the often-tough world around him—most notably in his 2000 book, Ray’s a Laugh, which captured poverty in 1990s Birmingham—British photographer and Turner Prize-nominated artist Richard Billingham brings to life scenes from his youth in Ray, a 33-minute, single-channel video installation, excerpted above. Below, Billingham talks about the story behind his photographs and his plans to continue the Ray project as a partially Kickstarter-funded, three-part feature film, Ray & Liz:

“In the early 1990s I began photographing my father Ray with the intention of making paintings from them. I grew increasingly interested in the photographs, in composition, mood, texture, shape and form. It was not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalize, or be political, only to make work that is truthful. Ray & Liz is a natural progression from previous photography and video work about my family.

“This project is a concentration of my own experience of growing up in a tower block on a council flat during Thatcher-era Britain. By staying true to lived experience and observation I wanted to recreate a world that can only have come about from my being witness to it."

You can donate to Richard Billingham's Kickstarter campaign for Ray & Liz here.