Generational Love sets two couples in Michel Odouffan’s childhood living room and asks them to do the one thing we have trained ourselves out of: to be obvious about wanting each other. Against wax-print backdrops and a familiar red sofa, the newer couple lets the wanting spill over — a hand, a kiss, a head come to rest — while the older pair has learned to sit a careful inch apart.

The series moves between those two registers, from affection allowed to affection composed away, and keeps returning to a smaller, steadier image: hands, a thumb passing over knuckles, the proof that warmth doesn’t dry up so much as wait. Photographed by Sasha Zheinova.