Thirty-four years after its original release, Nick Waplington has republished his iconic, out-of-print book Living Room. Issued under his own imprint, Jesus Blue, the new edition remains faithful to the earlier design but features a completely different edit and several different photographs.
 
 
 
“Reacting against what Waplington calls the familiar ‘grainy, downtrodden, black-and-white interpretation of working-class life’, Living Room offers richly coloured glimpses of community spirit, sparked by the joys, setbacks and adventures of family life. Over four years, Waplington came to know working-class families in Nottingham, England, intimately. He spent countless hours becoming part of their boisterous daily chaos, photographing them with sympathetic spontaneity. This young, award-winning photographer's first book makes viewers feel at home in a warm, welcoming and noisy world.”