“I have been taking photographs for 30 years now and it has steadily become less important to me that the photographs are about something in the most obvious way. I am interested in more elusive and nebulous subject matter. The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether of nothingness… you can’t sum up the results in a single line.” —Paul Graham (1956)
Paul Graham is a contemporary British photographer known for his sequential colour prints of people engaged in daily life. His 12 volume photobook A Shimmer of Possibility (2007), summarizes Graham’s interest in calling attention to overlooked activities or places. Born in Stafford, United Kingdom, he studied at Bristol University and began taking photographs during the 1970s. Graham had his first show in 1986, producing colour photographs alongside a few other young British photographers such as Martin Parr and Richard Billingham. The artist currently divides his time between New York, NY and London, United Kingdom. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.