Paul Graham - Beyond Caring feminist

Paul Graham - Beyond Caring feministMACK 2021 Originally self published in 1985, Paul Grahams renowned series, Beyond Caring, was made in the waiting rooms and corridors of the Social Security and Unemployment offices around the UK, documenting the long waits, queues and poor conditions of an overburdened system, to produce a powerful series of photographs conveying the hardship people experienced. Denied official permission to make the work, Grahams photographs were taken discreetly,

this work comes as a “happy accident

when rituals of myth and storytelling might evoke a dark spirit

Golden Apple of the Sun is a luminous and humane work

Woolworth’s and corner stores

as Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa writes in his essay

Because the camera dates from 1942

and for spiritual healing in our tumultuous times

self-portraits

A key issue in Fish Story is the connection between containerized cargo movement and the growing internationalization of the world industrial economy

still lifes

Peperoni Books 2013

His work is now beginning to be widely exhibited internationally and he is viewed as one of the most interesting of a new generation of image makers working within photography