Katherine Hubbard Photographs Her Mother's Dementia in 'The Great Room' at Studio Voltaire

Key facts

• Katherine Hubbard began photographing her mother, Antonette Berger, in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Berger was diagnosed with LATE (limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy), which causes Alzheimer's-like symptoms with slower decline.
• Hubbard set up two vintage Polaroid cameras in Berger's Germantown apartment and left them for five years.
• The series is titled The Great Room, named after Berger's description of the apartment's main living space.
• The photographs were published as a book titled One Fifty One, after the building's street number.
• Hubbard's solo exhibition at Studio Voltaire, London, runs from 7 October until 10 January 2027.
• Hubbard and Berger made nude body prints together in the darkroom, covering themselves in Vaseline and using their bodies as printing tools on photo paper.
• Berger owned and rented out the large, dilapidated building for 40 years, and Hubbard later took over its management.