Issue #028 This One Thing... The Well by Nigel Shafran

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Images by photographer Nigel Shafran, taken from his retrospective book The Well

Nigel Shafran, 2022 © Courtesy Loose Joints

Culture, Fashion, People, Books

This One Thing... The Well by Nigel Shafran

August 5, 2022 | By Poppy Roy

The Well: A term that describes the central pages of a fashion magazine and the title of photographer Nigel Shafran’s recently published book. Yet, inside his tome, you’ll find stark images of the people and shopfronts of the British high street in the early nineties overleaf from the aftermath of bomb damage in Belfast. Starting his career assisting fashion photographers in New York, Shafran considered himself an “outsider”. With the street an unexpected source of creativity, supermarket car parks and shopping centres became unlikely settings and his part-performance, part-documentary photographs were a self-confessed reaction “against the celebrity” and the very industry he started in. Raw, stripped back and uncompromisingly simplistic, Shafran’s work was instrumental in pivoting the world of fashion imagery. This book is a testament to that.

Poppy Roy is Picture Director for Service95, previously at British Vogue, and is a model and writer

This One Thing... The Well by Nigel Shafran

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