Nick Waplington: Living Room Limited-Edition Book and Print Set

Aperture is pleased to offer a specially designed slipcased book and print set of Nick Waplington’s 2024 conceptual remake of his seminal 1991 publication Living Room.

Limited to an edition of 30 signed and numbered sets, each set features a signed book and signed C-print printed in the United Kingdom. Nick Waplington’s Living Room, his first book, was published by Aperture in 1991, and was an instant sensation within the photography world and beyond. The 59 photographs in the original edition documented the lives of friends, families, and neighbors on the Broxtowe housing estate in Nottingham, England, where Waplington spent years making thousands of images.

In the decades since its publication, Living Room has achieved an iconic status in modern British photography. In the meantime, Waplington has developed a diverse and forward-looking body of work, and has been reluctant to heed calls to reissue the book in a new edition. Now, nearing the book’s thirty-fifth anniversary, he has produced a vibrantly new conceptual remake, one that revisits and refashions the work from a contemporary vantage point.

This new work follows the same sequencing of landscape and portrait images, and preserves the original design of the legendary Tibor Kalman. Each of the original 59 photographs, however, has been replaced with an as-yet-unseen work from Waplington’s extensive archive, often from the same roll of film as the originally printed image. The result is both familiar and uncanny, a vivid journey back to Thatcher’s Britain and a testament to the decades of art and life that have elapsed between then and now.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.