
Living Room (2024)
- Publisher
- Jesus Blue / Hamiltons Gallery
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-1-8380354-6-4
- Specifications
- Hardcover with dust jacket
250 x 327 mm
72 pages
61 previously unseen photographs
Book artwork by Jonny Lu Studio
Adapted from the original design by Tibor Kalman
First Jesus Blue Edition of 550 copies
A rebuild of the book that made Nick Waplington's name. The first version, published in 1991, portrayed the households of two families on the Broxtowe council estate on the western edge of Nottingham, where Waplington had gone to visit his grandfather's neighbours and stayed for years: cramped front rooms, patterned wallpaper, children climbing over furniture, adults caught mid-argument or mid-laugh, all in dense saturated colour and on-camera flash. This edition keeps the sequence and the alternation of wide interiors and close portraits, but every frame has been swapped for one never shown before, in many cases taken seconds earlier or later on the same roll of film. The effect is of a familiar story retold by the same voice in slightly different words: a return to Thatcher's Britain and to the working-class households that carried it, and at the same time a measure of the decades that have passed since.