Is it just the stories we tell ourselves that really matter? Faced with the doubts that come with turning forty, Shawn Records honoured the milestone by rewriting his own life, overriding randomness by carefully sequencing a deadpan epic out of disparate photographic odds and ends accumulated over time. Rising and falling in narrative arcs that flirt with the comic as much as the heroic, Hero transcends the day-to-day with empathy and wit.