BJP #7835: Nude Animal Cigar

By Tom Seymour

The May issue of British Journal of Photography, on sale now, is dedicated to photographers who don’t quite ‘fit in’.

Our main feature is Michael Grieve’s interview with Nick Waplington, the iconic British photographer, as he exhibits his photography alongside Alexander McQueen at Tate Britain.

For Waplington, the sense of being an outsider runs throughout his work, as does the idea of family. Originally from middle-class Surrey, he made his name with a series of photographs focusing on life on the Nottingham housing estate (where his grandfather had been born and still lived), capturing in lurid colour the ‘pre-Ikea’ interior …read more

Via: BJP