This exhibition surveys four years in the practice of one of the UK’s most acclaimed photographers. Paul Graham’s photographic series, New Europe ranges across the contemporary tableaux of Europe in transition. Taken between 1988 and 1992 they reflect upon a Europe caught between the promise of the future – of 1993 and a more unified continent – and the shadows of the past. The photographs were straightforward; Graham uses no gimmickry or special techniques but simply encourages reflection on the significance, direct or symbolic, of the images he selects. New Europe was neither narrative nor documentary. Rather, it constitutes a visual poem which resonated across the social and psychological landscape of Western Europe at this moment in time.
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