Day Sleeper British photographer Paul Graham’s first major body

Paul Graham’s first major body of work since 2014’s Does Yellow Run Forever

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a Culture Ireland facilitation grant

Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures and photographed their suddenly fragile world: deserted factories

Day Sleeper British photographer Paul Graham’s first major bodyIn this book Sam Contis presents a new window onto the work of the iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing from Langes extensive archive, Contis constructs a fragmented, unfamiliar world centred around the figure of the day sleeper at once a symbol of respite and oblivion. The book shows us one artist through the eyes of another, with Contis responding to resonances between her and Langes ways of seeing. It reveals a largely unknown side