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A wonderful series of photos. I often return to this book. Beyond Caring and Troubled Land are also key British documentary photobooks. Thanks for sharing.

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His books are still on my "shopping list". Would be great to have them on my shelf.

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Thanks for today's post! Paul Graham is an absolute favourite of mine. A Shimmer of Possibility is a monumental body of work.

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Indeed it is. I remember seeing the Shimmer of Possibility at The Whitechapel Gallery without knowing anything about him and being struck by its originality.

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Dec 28, 2023Liked by Tomasz Trzebiatowski

Yes, I saw the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition as well! I liked it very much because it had a small survey of his work, and it had so many iconic images only knew from his books. Not to sound snobbish, but I remember not liking the prints of Shimmer - they look poorly printed. Some years later, if I remember correctly, at the Photographer's Gallery I saw Shimmer again and they must have reprinted them because they looked stunning.

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I missed the exhibition at the Photographers Gallery. I only fully discovered him when the A1 book was republished.

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