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 on a council estate in Nottingham, England. Rather than adopting the contemporary photographic conventions of social realism, Waplington chronicled the lives of these families in saturated color, capturing an intimate, poignant and unexpectedly humorous narrative.
Nick Waplington makes no dramatic social statements, but rather a touching, realistic chronicle of the daily struggle of the working class. In many ways, this makes the work a much more touching critique of poverty. Living Room is a tender and poignant debut, beautifully documenting the physical and physiological dysfunction 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 on a council estate in Nottingham, England. Rather than adopting the contemporary photographic conventions of social realism, Waplington chronicled the lives of these families in saturated color, capturing an intimate, poignant and unexpectedly humorous narrative.
Nick Waplington makes no dramatic social statements, but rather a touching, realistic chronicle of the daily struggle of the working class. In many ways, this makes the work a much more touching critique of poverty. Living Room is a tender and poignant debut, beautifully documenting the physical and physiological dysfunction of families facing economic hardship.
Published by Aperture, 1991
33 × 25.5cm
72 pages
ISBN: 9780893814816
