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Documenting people’s everyday lives, Graham approaches social realities with brutal honesty. His works are resolutely contemporary and can be read both artistically and politically, qualities obvious in earlier works like Troubled Land (1987), his photographs from Northern Ireland, or New Europe (1993), a series of images reflecting on history and memory across Western Europe. Affirming “the best of time is always now,” his last major work, End of an Age (1999), was a series of astonishing portraits that capture the almost tragic self-forgetfulness of young people at the close of the millennium. Paul Graham’s works break traditional boundaries between reportage, portrait, and landscape photography to successfully negotiate the relationship between art and document. |
