The artist and photographer Nick Waplington was born 1970 in Aden and lives in New York City. The eldest of three children, he traveled extensively during his childhood as his father worked as a scientist in the nuclear industry. He studied art at Worthing Art College, Trent Polytechic and the Royal College of Art in London.
From 1984 Waplington would regularly visit his grandfather on the Broxtowe Estate in Nottingham where he began to photograph his immediate surroundings. Friends and neighbours of his family became his subject matter of choice. He continued with this work on and off for the next 15 years and from it came two books (Living Room and Weddings, Parties, Anything, both Aperture Foundation) and numerous exhibitions. (The book Weddings, Parties, Anything was called The Wedding for the American version only.)
Other Edens (Aperture 1994) focused on environmental concerns and, although it was conceived and worked on at the same time as 'Living Room', was seen as a major departure in style and content. This work is global in nature and its ideas are ambiguous and multi-layered.
Other bodies of work include the much-copied Safety in Numbers (Booth Clibborn Editions 1997), a bleak study of E culture in the mid-1990s, and The Indecisive Memento, a global road trip where the journey itself was the artwork (Booth Clibborn Editions 1999).
Waplington's next published work was Truth or Consequences (Phaidon 2001), a pictorial game based on the history of photography using the town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico as a backdrop. In this work the rules of the 1950s television show inspired the concept of Waplington's photographic project.
"Learn how to die the easy way" (Trolley Books, 2002) Waplington's contribution to a group exhibition in part of the Venice Biennale 2001, expresses a yearning for the artistic and commercial freedom that the web might yet expose and a celebration of the dislocated reason behind conventional thoughts and media. "If, as I suspect," says Waplington, "the Internet has broken the stranglehold of governments and large media corporations on mass communication, then we could be in for a very exciting period of development on a number of different levels. Would a breakdown of current modes of social, moral and political cohesion be too much for a man to ask for?"
His other photographic books include You Love Life, (Trolley Books, 2005) in which the photographer uses pictures taken over a 20 year period to construct an autobiographical narrative.
Waplington's graphic novel "Terry Painter" was made in collaboration with Miguel Calderon in 2003. This and other projects with Calderon including "The Garden of Suburban Delights" have been exhibited in Europe and the US.
In December 2007, the project space at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London showed his slide show of found internet photos, entitled "Synethesia". Also to be published are a series of ten books of found imagery called "You Are Only What You See,", with a separate catalog of original photos by Waplington called 'Double Dactyl' (Trolley Books, 2008).
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Waplington worked on a major book project with the fashion designer Alexander McQueen during 2008/2009. The book was completed, edited and ready for publication by Waplington and McQueen at the time of McQueen's untimely death in 2010.[citation needed]
2011 has seen two new books from Waplington, 'Surf Riot' published by Little Big Man of New York City and the self published printed on demand title 'Lackadaisical' a work that changes with every 100 copies printed.
Après le succès rencontré par l’organisation de cet événement en 2013, La Chambre invite à nouveau le public alsacien à découvrir les images présentées dans le cadre du célèbre Foto Festival de Mannheim.
Profitant de sa proximité géographique avec l’Allemagne, La Chambre organise, le 14 novembre 2015, une journée durant laquelle seront proposées par les équipes du Foto Festival, les visites guidées de trois expositions.
Pour sa 6ème édition, le FF présente le travail de 44 photographes internationaux – connus ou émergents –, invitant le spectateur à faire face aux différentes situations de crise que la planète traverse. &...
L’exposition Dust – Histoires de poussière d’après Man Ray et Marcel Duchamp retrace la vie et les tribulations d’une étrange photographie réalisée en 1920 par Man Ray ou était-ce Marcel Duchamp ? ou peut-être Man Ray et Marcel Duchamp ? La photographie est sans prétention mais énigmatique. C’est un document. C’est une œuvre d’art. C’est un document sur une œuvre d’art. elle est réaliste et abstraite. C’est une nature morte et un paysage. Peut-être même une performance. Je vous dirais volontiers son titre si je le connaissais.
Au début, personne ne s’est beaucoup intéressé à cette image, mais avec le temps elle est devenue un talisman...
"Conflict, Time, Photography" presents the many facets of the artistic portrayal of armed conflicts using the medium of photography. Artists such as Don McCullin, Pierre-Antony-Thouret, Simon Norfolk, Stephen Shore, Michael Schmidt and Taryn Simon have depicted acts of war and their legacy, in photographs taken in the mo-ment of the action, as well as days, months, years, and even decades after the event. This major group exhibition has no intention of serving as a ‘history of war photography’, however. It instead explores the various possibilities and strategies that artists and photographers have adopted to try to come to terms with violent conflict, in the hope of overcoming it. On show are some 200 works ranging from a period of just over 150 years in the history of photography, from 1855 to 201...
This major exhibition presents the result of a unique collaboration between artist Nick Waplington (b. 1965) and the acclaimed fashion designer Alexander McQueen (1969–2010).
Providing a rare behind-the-scenes look into one of fashion’s most innovative and celebrated names, Waplington’s photographs capture the creative journey of McQueen’s final Autumn/Winter collection, Horn of Plenty in 2009. The critically acclaimed collection was an iconoclastic retrospective of McQueen’s career in fashion, reusing silhouettes and fabrics from his earlier collections, and creating a catwalk set out of discarded elements from the sets of his past shows.
Waplington’s photographs reveal a raw and unpolished side of the fashion world. Candid images of McQueen’s working process are juxtapose...
The complexity of Israel and the West Bank through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers.
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is a monumental artistic endeavor initiated by photographer Frederic Brenner, who believes that only through the eyes of great artists can we begin to understand the complexities of Israel – its history, its geography, its inhabitants, its daily life – and the resonance it has for people around the world.
Inspired by historical models that gathered artists to ask essential questions about culture, society and individuals, including the Mission Héliographique in 19th-century France and the Farm Security Administration in the United States, Brenner first conceived the idea for the project in 2006. After seeking the advice of a group of international curators, he invited eleven ...