Nigel Shafran – Dark Rooms

Nigel Shafran – Dark RoomsNigel Shafrans new book takes five interconnected series of photographs and weaves them together with the common thread of domestic scenes. There is a constant sense of forward movement that is sometimes overt, as in the photographs of supermarket checkouts or underground escalators; sometimes implicit and more emotionally charged, as when the photographer faces the inventory of possessions in his mothers last house. But in each case these photographs

Since leaving social work to pursue photography over a decade ago

"At this point you have a choice to make

and poetic implications intersect

Like the visible bits of the viscous animals you have just imagined

produce the white cloud of invisibility and documents the author’s own attempts to manifest the cloud

sight is not only the product of the activity of our eyes

it embodies the balance between lightness

Ross Gerhold

Along this twenty-mile stretch of one of the world's longest coastal mudflats

In September 2018 all but one of those prosecuted were acquitted by Iceland’s Supreme Court

Copublished by Aperture and Fondation d’entreprise Hermès

254 × 203 mm