Nigel Shafran Explained

Nigel Shafran
Birth Date:	1964 (59 or 60 years old)
Birth Place:	United Kingdom
Website:	nigelshafran.com

Nigel Shafran (born 1964) is a photographer^{[1] [2]} and artist. His work has been exhibited at Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In the 1980s Shafran worked as a fashion photographer,^[3] before turning to fine art photography. Talking to The Guardian journalist Sarah Philips, Shafran described his work as, "a build-up of images, often in sequences. There is a connection between them all. Basically, I'm a one-trick pony: it's all life and death and that's it."^[4]

Publications

• Ruthbook. Self-published, 1995. Supported by Focal Point Gallery. Edition of 600 copies.
• Dad’s Office. Self-published, 1999. . Edition of 1000 copies.
• Edited Photographs: Photoworks Monograph. Brighton, Photoworks; Göttingen, Steidl: 2004. . Photographs by Shafran. Edited by Celia Davies, with essays by Val Williams and Paul Elliman, and an interview with Shafran by Charlotte Cotton.
• Flowers for ______. London: Koenig, 2008. . Edition of 750 copies.
• Ruth on the phone. Roma publications, 2012. .
• Teenage Precinct Shoppers. Dashwood Books, 2013. Edition of 500 copies.
• Visitor Figures: Out-takes from the V&A Museum Annual Review 2012-13. Self-published, 2015. Edition of 350 copies.
• Dark Rooms. London: Mack, 2016. . Co-edited by Liz Jobey. With texts by David Chandler and Paul Elliman.
• The People on the Streets. 2018.

Solo exhibitions

• 2000: Photographs by Nigel Shafran, 1992-2000, Taka Ishi Gallery, Japan
• 2001: Washing Up 2000, Fig-1, London
• 2004: Nigel Shafran, MW projects, London
• 2008: Flowers for ______, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France^{[5] [6]}
• 2010: Compost pictures, 2008-9, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, UK

Collections

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London^[7]
• Arts Council England

Notes and References

1. Web site: Teenage Precinct Shoppers by Nigel Shafran: A Look Back to 1990. 11 April 2013 . 26 August 2016 . . Phil . Bicker .
2. Liz Jobey, "Photographer Nigel Shafran: domestic harmony," The Guardian, 23 October 2008.
3. Kate Constable, "Fashion: Yours: big shots at a snip," The Independent, 18 November 1993.
4. Sarah Phillips, "Photographer Nigel Shafran's best shot," The Guardian, 21 April 2010.
5. Web site: Exhibitions. 26 August 2016. .
6. Web site: Rencontres d'Arles, 2008. 26 August 2016. . 12 August 2008.
7. Web site: Search the Collections. 26 August 2016. .