Living Room (2024). First edition of 550 copies

34 Years after its original release photographer Nick Waplington has taken it upon himself to republish his iconic and long out-of-print book Living Room. Published under his own imprint, Jesus Blue, the new edition is faithful to the old design but carries a completely different edit and a number of different photographs.

“In reaction to — as Nick Waplington puts it — “the grainy, downtrodden, black-and-white interpretation of working-class life” one generally sees, Living Room offers lushly coloured glimpses of the communal spirit, fired by the joys, mishaps and adventures of family life. Over the course of four years Nick Waplington became intimately acquainted with the working-class families in Nottingham, England. He spent countless hours becoming part of the boisterous chaos of their lives, photographing them with sympathetic spontaneity. This young, award-winning photographer’s first book, Living Room, makes viewers thoroughly at home in its warm, welcoming, noisy world.”