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By the end of the 1980s, England had seen ten years of Conservative government, the collapse of industry, rising poverty and unemployment, and the abandonment of people and places by centralized government.
It was against this backdrop that British photographer Nick Waplington spent four years documenting the daily lives of two working-class families in a public housing project in Nottingham, England. Rather than adopting the contemporary photographic conventions of social realism, Waplington chronicled the lives of these families in saturated colors, capturing an intimate, poignant, and unexpectedly humorous narrative.
Nick Waplington doesn’t make any dramatic social statements; instead, he offers a touching and realistic portrayal of the working class’s daily struggles. In many ways, this makes the work a far more poignant critique of poverty. *Living Room* is a tender and poignant debut album that beautifully captures the physical and emotional struggles of families facing economic hardship.
Published by Aperture, 1991
33 × 25.5cm
72 pages
ISBN: 9780893814816
By the end of the 1980s, England had seen ten years of Conservative government, the collapse of industry, rising poverty and unemployment, and the abandonment of people and places by centralized government.
It was against this backdrop that British photographer Nick Waplington spent four years documenting the daily lives of two working-class families in a public housing project in Nottingham, England. Rather than adopting the contemporary photographic conventions of social realism, Waplington chronicled the lives of these families in saturated colors, capturing an intimate, poignant, and unexpectedly humorous narrative.
Nick Waplington doesn’t make any dramatic social statements; instead, he offers a touching and realistic portrayal of the working class’s daily struggles. In many ways, this makes the work a far more poignant critique of poverty. *Living Room* is a tender and poignant debut album that beautifully captures the physical and emotional struggles of families facing economic hardship.
Published by Aperture, 1991
33 × 25.5cm
72 pages
ISBN: 9780893814816
