Nick Waplington

Nick Waplington (* 1965 in Aden ) is an English photographer .

biography

Waplington was born the son of a nuclear scientist . He spent his youth in different places with his family until 1985 when he moved to live with his grandfather in Nottingham , an old industrial town in the East Midlands in England . Even as a schoolboy, he photographed his immediate surroundings, his friends and neighbors and the urban landscape of Nottingham.

He published his first photo book "Living Room" in 1991 with Aperture . To this end, since 1986 he has spent many weekends with two working class families in Nottingham. He took part in their lives and documented unadorned everyday life between chaos and happiness in a society with no perspective. “Living Room” was continued in the illustrated books Weddings , Parties , Anything .

From 1993 to 2000 a photo report was created about the small town " Truth or Consequences " in New Mexico , which was named after a radio and TV show by Ralph Edwards in 1950 . Waplington's photographs of the everyday occurrences of the place with the unusual name and its surrounding landscape are both a quote and homage to the famous photographers of American everyday life Walker Evans , Edward Weston , Robert Frank or William Eggleston "... The result is a work like this, that alternates between the provincial and the private, between the view of others and one's own perception - a work of transition and a large photo essay about the depths of our image reservoir. ”The report is documented in the illustrated book “ Nick Waplington, Truth or Consequences ” .

From 2008 to 2010, as well as in 2012 and 2013, Nick Waplington stayed in Israel . He photographed over 350 Jewish settlements in the West Bank and portrayed settler families, particularly those who immigrated from Great Britain, Canada, South Africa, Australia, the USA and the former Soviet Union. With the resulting work Settlement , he is part of the exhibition project This Place , initiated by Frédéric Brenner , by twelve internationally renowned photographers on the complexity of Israel and the West Bank. In addition to Waplington and Brenner, Wendy Ewald (USA), Martin Kollar (Slovakia), Josef Koudelka (Czech Republic), Jungjin Lee (South Korea), Gilles Peress (France), Fazal Sheikh (USA), Stephen Shore (USA), Rosalind were involved Solomon (USA), Thomas Struth (Germany) and Jeff Wall (Canada). This Place was on view between 2014 and 2016 at the Dox - Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art , the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach / Florida and the Brooklyn Museum .

In 1990 Nick Waplington received the European Kodak Award and in 1993 the ICP Young Photographer Award from the International Center of Photography , New York. In 2001 he took part in the 49th Venice Biennale .

Bibliography (selection)

• Living room . Zweiausendeins, Berlin, 1991 (texts by Richard Avedon and John Berger )
• Other Edens . Aperture, New York 1994
• The Wedding . Aperture, New York 1996 (continuation of the Livingroom series, text by Irvine Welsh )
• Safety In Numbers . Booth Clibborn Editions, London 1997 (text by Marc Sanders )
• The Indecisive Momento . Booth Clibborn Editions, London 1998 (text by Marc Sanders)
• Truth or Consequences A Personal History of American Photography from the Last Century . Phaidon, London 2001 (text by John Slyce )
• You love life. Trolley, London 2005, ISBN 978-1904563426
• Double dactyl . Trolley, London 2007, ISBN 978-1904563679
• Learn how to Die the Easy Way. Trolley, London, ISBN 978-0954207977
• Alexander McQueen: Working Process. Damiani, 2013, ISBN 978-8862082952
• The Patriarch's Wardrobe. PAMBook, Melbourne 2012, ISBN 978-0980369663
• Settlement . Mack, 2014, ISBN 978-1907946523
• Made Glorious Summer. Powershovel, Tokyo 2014, ISBN 978-4-9902101-7-5
• We Live As We Dream: Alone . Mörel, London 2015, ISBN 978-1907071508
• The Isaac Mizrahi Pictures: New York City 1989-1993 . Damiani, 2016, ISBN 9788862084512

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1990 Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
• 1990 "Living Room", The Photographers' Gallery, London
• 1991 Burden Gallery, New York (also 1997)
• 1992 "Living Room" and "Circles of Civilization", Philadelphia Museum of Art , Philadelphia
• 1993 Museum for Photography , Braunschweig
• 1993 Royal Photographic Society , Bath
• 1994 "Other Edens", The Photographers' Gallery, London
• 1995 Billed Huset, Copenhagen
• 1996 "Weddings, Parties, Anything". National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford (Eng)
• 1996 Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
• 1999 Holly Solomon Gallery , New York
• 1999 Dorothée De Pauw Gallery, Brussels
• 2000 "Crimes and Suicides", Palazzo Ferretto Rebecca Container Gallery, Genoa
• 2002 Dorothée De Pauw Gallery, Brussels
• 2003 Museum 52, London (also 2004 and "Wax and Wayne", 2006)
• 2005 "You love Life", Roebling Hall, New York (also Trolley Books, London)
• 2007 "You Are Only What You See" and "Double Dactyl" , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London
• 2010 "The Journey to the Seventh Heaven", The Spaceship, Tel Aviv
• 2011 "Long Way Back to Nowhere", See Studio, London
• 2013 "Surf Riot", Little Big Man Gallery, San Francisco
• 2014 "Good Man's Grave is his Sabbath", Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles
• 2015 "Alexander McQueen - Working Process",  Tate Britain , London
• 2016 Isaac Mizrahi Project, The Jewish Museum, New York

Works in public collections (selection)

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York, USA
• Museum of Modern Art , New York, USA
• The British Council , London, UK
• National Gallery (Australia) , Sydney, Australia
• Philadelphia Museum of Art , USA
• The Royal Photographic Society , Bath, UK
• Government Art Collection. London
• Victoria and Albert Museum , London

Web links

Nick Waplington homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nick Waplington, Living Room , Aperture Foundation, 1991, ISBN 978-0-89381-481-6
2. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 11, 1991
3. ↑ nick waplington, John Slyce (introductory text), Truth or Consequences, A Personal History of American Photography from the Last Century , Phaidon-Verlag, Berlin, 2001
4. ^ Settlement by Nick Waplington. Accessed August 17, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Isabel Kershner: Photography Project Seeks New Angles on Israel . In: The New York Times . December 14, 2011, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed August 17, 2017]).
6. ↑ This Place | Home. Accessed August 17, 2017 . 
7. ^ Nick Waplington, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London . In: The Independent . December 23, 2007 ( independent.co.uk [accessed August 17, 2017]).