Attention all New York-based friends! Nick Waplington will be giving a talk at picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom, this Thursday, 6-8pm EDT.
The talk will be celebrating the new edit of Living Room, which was co-published by Nick Waplington, Hamiltons Gallery and Aperture in April of this year.
Nick Waplington’s first book, Living Room (Aperture,1991), was an instant sensation within the photography world and beyond, and remains an important depiction of 1980s working-class Britain. The original edition of Living Room documented the lives of friends, families, and neighbours on the Broxtowe housing estate in Nottingham, England, where Waplington spent years making thousands of images. An extensive archive of unseen photographs from this series forms the basis of this conceptual remake, one that revisits and refashions Waplington’s iconic work from a contemporary vantage point. This new edition (Jesus Blue, 2024) follows the same sequencing of landscape and portrait images as the original, replacing each of the fifty-nine photographs with an as-yet-unseen work from the Living Room archive, often from the same roll of film as the original image. The result is both familiar and uncanny, a vivid journey back to Thatcher’s Britain and a testament to the decades of art and life that have elapsed between then and now.
Make sure to RSVP if you can make it. And, if you can’t, get yourself a copy of the book on our website.
Reserve a spot: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nick-waplington-living-room-tickets-1009612276497?aff=oddtdtcreator
Buy the book: https://shophamiltonsgallery.com/shop/p/nick-waplington-living-room
Image: Nick Waplington, UNTITLED (LR 90 180), from the series Living Room, 1985-97 © Nick Waplington
Nick Waplington’s photographs are available in exhibition—quality prints. Please inquire for pricing and availability.