DARK ROOMS

Nigel Shafran's new book takes five interconnected series of photographs and weaves them together with the common thread of domestic scenes. There is a constant sense of forward movement that is sometimes overt, as in the photographs of supermarket checkouts or un derground escalators/ sometimes implicit and more emotionally charged, as when the photographer faces the inventory of possessions i n his mother's last house. But in each case these photographs deal as much with what has been left behind as with what lies ahead. T hey carr...[Read more]