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

As his series of images of mid-80s Northern Ireland is republished, the photographer talks about being a stranger in a contested landscape and his elliptical approach to representing the conflict

A resource site for the artist-photographer Paul Graham.

"It’s so difficult because it’s everywhere, every place, all the time, even right now. It's the view of this pen in my hand as I write this, it's an image of your hands holding this book, Drift your consciousness up and out of this text and see: it's right there, across the room - there... and there

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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.

On the streets of New York, the British photographer captures our own experience of moving through the everyday world

British, born 1956

British, born 1956