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Richard Billingham - Ray's A Laugh Smalltime Books Every edition is a newPhotographer and painter Richard Billingham (born 1970) grew up in a cramped, high rise tenement apartment with his mother and father in Birmingham, England. His father, Ray, was an unemployed, chronic alcoholic, often sleeping the whole day through, while Liz, Billinghams overweight and heavily tattooed mother, filled her home with porcelain dolls and jigsaw puzzles, housing ten cats and three dogs. These are Billinghams subjects. His images are raw,