Nick Waplington
1992
Lenin With Cuddly Toy, Brussels
Digital C-Print / 20 x 12.73" / 50.8 x 32.4 cm
Waplington’s expansive photographic vision runs the gamut of lived experience, ranging widely over moments of genuine poetic beauty to images of the grotesque and the base. Traversing visual terrain as varied as a crowded London club to streams of rushing water in the Welsh countryside, Waplington invests his most personal experiences with universal significance. Witness an image of the birth of his son, as well the social ferment of the Glastonbury Music Festival. A fly on the wall during the unveiling of his own life and that of thousands of others, Waplington’s photography crashes the party or disaster that is everyday life, emerging with a visual record that is unique in its intimacy, kind-heartedness and, ultimately, compassion.