Living Room Limited Edition Book and Print Set

Aperture is pleased to offer a specially designed slipcased book and print set of Nick Waplington’s 2024 conceptual remake of his seminal 1991 publication Living Room. Limited to an edition of 30 signed and numbered sets, each set features a signed book and signed C-print printed in the United Kingdom. This set is available exclusively through Aperture at a special pre-publication price of $850, while quantities last, through the preorder window of April 30. The edition will increase in price upon release. Nick Waplington’s Living Room, his first book, was published by Aperture in 1991, and was an instant sensation within the photography world and beyond. The 59 photographs in the original edition documented the lives of friends, families, and neighbors on the Broxtowe housing estate in Nottingham, England, where Waplington spent years making thousands of images. In the decades since its publication, Living Room has achieved an iconic status in modern British photography. In the meantime, Waplington has developed a diverse and forward-looking body of work, and has been reluctant to heed calls to reissue the book in a new edition. Now, nearing the book’s thirty-fifth anniversary, he has produced a vibrantly new conceptual remake, one that revisits and refashions the work from a contemporary vantage point. This new work follows the same sequencing of landscape and portrait images, and preserves the original design of the legendary Tibor Kalman. Each of the original 59 photographs, however, has been replaced with an as-yet-unseen work from Waplington’s extensive archive, often from the same roll of film as the originally printed 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.

Living Room, Slipcased book and print edition
Untitled, 1991, printed 2024 from the series Living Room
C-print
Image Size: 11 29/32 x 8 13/16 in.
Paper Size: 12 1/2 x 8 13/16 in.
Signed in pencil on the verso
Presented in a specially designed slipcase with a signed copy of Living Room, Photographs by Nick Waplington (Jesus Blue, 2024)
Edition: 30 and 5 Artist Proofs

*Sets will ship starting May 20, 2024; flat-rate international shipping charges are available. For additional questions, email prints@aperture.org

Nick Waplington (born in Aden, Yemen, 1965) is a British artist living between London and New York. He has published extensively throughout his career, including Safety in Numbers (1997), Truth or Consequences (2001), Working Process (2013), a collaboration with Alexander McQueen, Hackney Riviera (2019), and Anaglypta (2020). Waplington has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, and in 2015, was the first living British artist to have a solo photographic exhibition in the main galleries of Tate Britain, London.