Big Picture: Mother And Daughter, by Carra Sykes

Carra Sykes, 24, and her mother Marti, 60, aren’t uncommonly similar. But dressed in the same clothes while striking the same pose on the same spot, their facial similarities become more apparent: their jaw lines, the bridge of their noses, the curl of their lips. Photograph: Carra Sykes

Sykes, who graduated last May with a degree in graphic design, had been staying with her mother, taking self-portraits between job applications, when she decided it might be interesting to include her mum in the pictures. Photograph: Carra Sykes

Her uncle often jokes about Marti wearing her daughter’s clothes: when Sykes takes bags of castoffs destined for charity shops, Marti often rifles through them first. Photograph: Carra Sykes

So for fun, Sykes decided to style her mum as herself, take her picture, and rig up a self-timer and tripod to shoot her own portrait. Photograph: Carra Sykes

The result is a series of playful, quirky photographs of a mother and daughter having a lot of fun: striking often daft poses in running shorts and bare legs in the snow, lying across the back of a sofa, and hunkered inside a toilet cubicle wearing a crash helmet. Photograph: Carra Sykes

Dressed in often age-inappropriate T-shirts and sweaters, it’s Marti who comes off looking younger than her years. Photograph: Carra Sykes

Sykes may have plump skin and tattoos, in contrast with her mother’s freckles, age-spots and softly lined skin. Photograph: Carra Sykes

But it’s the pair’s evident shared joie de vivre that, more than their facial features, unites them. Photograph: Carra Sykes