Nicholas Nixon has occupied a prominent and singular place in the history of photography of recent decades, combining his personal activity as a photographer with that of professor of this discipline at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston until 2017. His works have been exhibited in some of the most important institutions around the world, such as the Art Institute of Chicago (1985), the MoMA in New York (1988), the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (1995) or the headquarters of Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid (2017).

Made up of portraits of the photographer’s wife, Beverly Brown (Bebe), and her three sisters, taken each year since 1975, this series The Brown Sisters is one of the most compelling investigations of portraiture and time in contemporary photography.