Paul Graham (b. 1956, UK) is a British photographer and has played a major role in the development of a new school of documentary photography, tying photography, cinema and conceptual art. His use of colour at the start of the 1980s, a time when documentary photography was dominated by black and white, has had a pivotal role on the genre. Paul Graham has won major awards, such as the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2009 and the Hasselblad Foundation Award in 2012.
For this new edition of OFFSCREEN, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière presents a shimmer of possibility (2004-2006), in which the artist guides us through impromptu scenes of everyday life across the United States. Capturing the flow of these moments “as if standing in a river”, each piece is composed of multiple images, taken seconds apart and from different angles. Eventually, a shimmer of possibility reveals a country at odds with itself, fraught with contradictions and incoherences.
Graham’s work is included in public collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, the Museum Communal in Italy, the National Museum of Photography in the United Kingdom and the Winnipeg Art Museum in Canada. Paul Graham's photographs can also be found in several private collections in the United States, Europe and Japan.