Between the Shell female artist and scrapbook

and scrapbook

a Shimmer of Possibility

contemplative existence of an old man living alone in a small house in a city on the south coast of England

Matthias Schmidt

and motherhood - all of which

Between the Shell female artist and scrapbookWinner of the 2013 MACK First Book Award Paul Salvesons photographs were born in New York and Virginia between 2006 and 2011. Constructing images in domestic environments from items found in arms reach, the results are absurdist constructions in which commonplace objects are jocosely rendered in polychromatic puzzles. Salveson describes his photographic process as 'unfolding like a private performance in an empty house, or after everyone falls asleep