The ecstatic face of a disco dancer in Berlin, a rural panorama in Derry, where a country road has been made into a Pollock-like canvas of red, white and blue, an ashtray, framed by a lacy spray of blood in a Barcelona toilet. Paul Graham uses and abuses classic genres of photography the portrait, the landscape, the still life to map a cultural topography. His jewel-like colours and unsettling compositions reveal how social relations and political trauma are inscribed in the everyday. This book brings together for the first time all of Graham´s successive series, from his journey along the A1 in Britain to intimate studies of Japan. Graham´s work has been celebrated in shows around the world, includingthe Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Gallery, London.
