PAUL GRAHAM
Stafford, United Kingdom, 1956
Louisiana, (Man Walking Cat), 2005
Digital pigment print mounted on Dibond
Twelve photographs
Installation dimensions, 60 x 700 cm
Acquired 2012
Paul Graham travels and photographs people in everyday scenarios. Traveling through the USA
—where he has lived for almost fifteen years— he perpetuates a tradition started by the likes of Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander or Garry Winogrand. He often focuses on the non-sites that form the suburban landscape: interstitial spaces, places of transit which people move through routinely without stopping, and interestingly enough are quite telling about a culture. His camera captures passers-by in those nondescript environments in sequence, thus framing an instant and turning it in a narrative.
The two characters in this series —a man and a cat— may have something in common, although maybe just the fact they happen to be in the same place at the same time. Put together, the series of twelve successive shots function like a film: they seem to capture time in a stop-motion fashion and the spread provides a sensation of a narrative; precisely revealing the normalcy of everyday life.
