“What is remarkable about the photographs is the special way in which they make the intimate something public”
Nick Waplington born in 1965 is a artist and photographer who is based in New York. He studied art at West Sussex College of Art & Design in Worthing, then Trent Polytechic in Nottingham and at the Royal College of Art in London. He has many publications his first one being ‘Living Room’ .In the late 1980’s England was under the Conservative government for now 10 years there was a collapse in the industry and a rise in poverty and unemployment. Photographer Nick Waplington decided to spend 4 year photographing the everyday life of middle class families in a council estate in Nottingham rather that photographing contemporary photography. He photographed family’s intimate moments in their living room by capturing physical and emotional dysfunctionality of everyday families.
