A resource site for the artist-photographer Paul Graham.

Paul Graham. Untitled (North Dakota) from the series a shimmer of possibility. 2005. Chromogenic color prints. Overall 22 × 180" (55.9 × 457.2 cm). Acquired through the generosity of Joseph M. Cohen. 878.2011.a-g. © 2025 Paul Graham. Photography

(The text was written for the Yale MFA photography graduation book - Yale MFA Photography 2009: We Belong Together) It’s so easy it's ridi...

Light on a sleeping face, the pastels of a blouse – the British photographer’s latest book is a simple and profound collection of portraits of his mother

Paul Graham End of an age

Paul Graham

The Present - Paul Graham Photography

These photographs, now four decades old, seem clearly stained with a sentiment for the country, or at least the country-of-my-mind. Then again, aren’t they all countries of our minds? Isn’t that the issue here? The lands we ‘live in’, their meaning and narratives are mostly a web we spin, stories we tell ourselves of history, identity, heritage, ‘character’ — these are the cloth in which we wrap ourselves, to explain or justify entrenched attitudes and political viewpoints.

British, born 1956

"Perhaps here we have stumbled upon a partial, but nonetheless astonishing description of the creative act at the heart of serious photography: nothing less than the measuring and folding of the cloth of time itself." By Paul Graham This month I read a review in a leading US Art Magazine of a Je