Jim Goldberg describes his new photobook, Coming and Going, as “my attempt to get close to the reality of the experience of living”. A self-styled “documentary storyteller”, born in New Haven, Connecticut, Goldberg made his name with a series of acclaimed projects, including Raised By Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009), that spoke of his deep engagement with other people’s troubled lives. This time, though, the subject is himself.
“I’m making something universal out of a normal life.” he says, “It’s all in there: deaths, births, divorce, illness, all the stuff that happens along the way. It’s my story, but all our stories, too.”
