Aperture Magazine Collectors’ Edition: Nick Waplington

This print will be available for sale from March 28 through April 6 only. The number of prints acquired will be the number produced.

This Aperture Magazine Collectors’ Edition features a signed print by Nick Waplington, accompanied by a copy of Aperture #250: "We Make Pictures in Order to Live” for only $200.

This issue of the magazine explores the relationship between photography and storytelling across generations and geographies. Featuring stories that illuminate daily life, this issue evokes the late, celebrated writer Joan Didion, who declared, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” and features a portfolio of Waplington’s work that includes this image. Aperture first published work from the Living Room project as a book in 1991. Spending years documenting the daily lives of two working-class families on a council estate in Nottingham, England, Waplington photographing in saturated color, weaved together a document of the lives of these families, capturing these often poignant intimate narratives, often with unexpected glimpses of humor.

“The Living Room project is one of my most well-known photographic works; the pictures were taken in Nottingham, England, roughly between 1986 and 1997, and two books from the project, Living Room and The Weddings were published in the 1990s by Aperture. The work deals with the daily existence of a group of families who lived in public housing in the city during the Thatcher years when the United Kingdom went through a series of radical social and political changes. Throughout this period, I would repeatedly return to the public housing projects where the families lived to stay with my grandfather, who had a house there. By 1992, when this picture was taken, some of my subjects had left the housing project and were living in Victorian housing near Nottingham city center. On a warm, sunny June afternoon, Dawn, the woman in the photograph, climbed on her boyfriend's car roof and posed for me. Because it was so unique to the pictures I was making, I disregarded it at the time, but I came across it again recently as I reevaluated the work some thirty years later. Like the project as a whole, this image shows the fun and happy time we had back then, 'mucking around in the street,' as we say in England."

—Nick Waplington

NOTE: Prints will begin to ship by April 26, 2023

Radford, 1992
Pigment Print
Paper Size: 5 x 7 inches
Signed by the artist

Available for sale March 28—April 6

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