Available to preorder - this edition is due to launch in May 2021.
FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING
32.2 x 24.3cm, 96 pages
"Graham uses the camera to expose the things we overlook. They are right there in front of all of us, yet we carry on with our own lives trying to make the world conform to our idea of it. Graham's pictures force us to open our eyes. He slashes through the everyday and in doing so lets in a little metaphorical ray of light to illuminate the subject." – Phil Coombs, BBC
"Social documentary in new colours, with sublime light effects, Vermeer-like precision and a submerged sense of loss" – Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books
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"Graham uses the camera to expose the things we overlook. They are right there in front of all of us, yet we carry on with our own lives trying to make the world conform to our idea of it. Graham's pictures force us to open our eyes. He slashes through the everyday and in doing so lets in a little metaphorical ray of light to illuminate the subject." – Phil Coombs, BBC
"Social documentary in new colours, with sublime light effects, Vermeer-like precision and a submerged sense of loss" – Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books
*
Spanning the full length of Britain and into Edinburgh, Graham travelled repeatedly along the 'Great North Road' with a large format camera, to record the people, buildings, and landscape of early 1980's Britain. Now 40 years old, this book is as much art as it is a historical document of the years of Margaret Thatcher’s government and the UK’s declining industrial base.
Graham went on to complete Beyond Caring (1985) and Troubled Land (1986), both of which became iconic bodies of work. Originally self-published and now rare, Graham's 1980's trilogy of books will be re-published over the coming years by MACK, ending with a limited edition box set of all 3 volumes.